LB 2529 
.L8 
1912 
Copy 1 



Public School Laws 

OF LOUISIANA 



Sanitary Regulations of the State Board 
of Health 



AND THE 



Important Decisions of the Supreme Court 
of Louisiana, Relative to Schools 



EIGTHTH COMPILATION 

(Containing All LaAvs, Regulations, etc., Now in Force.) 



T. H. HARRIS, STATE SUPERINTENDENT. 
1912 



Public School Laws 

OF LOUISIANA 



Sanitary Regulations of the State Board 
of Health 



AND THE 



Important Decisions of the Supreme Court 
of Louisiana, Relative to Schools 



EIGHTH COMPILATION 
(Containing All Laws, Regulations, etc., Now in Force.) 



T. H. HARRIS, STATE SUPERINTENDENT. 
, 1912 



RAMIRES-JONKSff^p^^^ BATON ROUGE, LA. 



D. OF D. 
JAN 15 1913 



INDEX 

Constitutional, Provisions. 

PAGE 

Books for Indigent Pupils 10 

Debt due A. & M. College 9, 10 

Debt due Seminary Fund 9 

Eligibility to public office 10 

Establishment of Educational Institutions 10 

Free Schools for Children between 6 and 18 6 

French Language 7 

Inheritance Tax 11 

Interest due Townships 9 

Louisiana Industrial Institute 9 

Louisiana State Normal School 9 

Louisiana State Universit}^ 8 

Parish School Boards 6, 7 

Parish Superintendent 6, 7 

Poll tax kept in Parish 7 

Poll tax of $1.00 5 

Private and Sectarian Schools 7 

Property Exempt from Taxation 5 

School Bonds 12 

School Funds — Cannot be used to aid religious or private 

schools 5 

School Funds — Sources 7 

Special School Tax 5, 6, 11 

State Board of Education 3, 6, 7 

Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute 9 

Southern University 9 

State Superintendent 6 

Three ]\Iill Tax for Schools 14, 15 

Legislative Provisions. 

A 

Agriculture and Home Economics (A. 306, '10) 108 

Agricultural Schools — State Appropriation (A. 186, '12). 57 
Annual Reports — Parish Superintendents (S. 29, A. 214, 

'12) 25 

Appropriations for Education — 1912-1913, and 1913- 

1914. 128-130 

Associations, Parish Teachers (S. 39) 27 

Assessors' Fees (A. 213, '08) 59 

Attorneys for Public Boards (A. 125, '12) 48 

Attorney General, Required to give opinions (S. 26, A. 

214, '12) 24 



Index — Continued 



B PAGE 

Bird Day (S. 14, A. 198, '06) .' 64 

Bonds Forfeited (S. 64) 65 

Branches Taught (S. 16, A. 214, 12) 21 

Budget of Revenues (S. 68, A. 214, 12) 35 

Buildings, Light in . , 125 

Buildings, Contracts for (S. 7, A. 214, 12) 18 

Buildings, Disinfecting (S. 46) 126 

c 

Clerk of Court — report on poll taxes (A. 87, '86) 87 

Closets 127 

Columbus Day (A. 56, 10) 64 

Commissioner of Military Recoi-ds (A. 73, '12) 52 

Communicable Diseases 126 

Compulsory Education for Orleans (A. 232, '12) 55 

D 

Deducting Fees of Witnesses and Jurors for Poll Taxes 

(A. 87, '86) 87 

Demonstration Farms Established by Police Juries (A. 

145, '12) • 45 

Deposit of School Funds (A. 282, '08) 100 

Diseases, Communicable 126 

Disinfecting School Buildings 126 

Dismissal of Teachers (S. 46, A. 214, '12) 29 

District Attorney, Counsel for School Board (S. 8, A. 

214, 12) 19 

Doors Opening Outward (A. 91, '08) 125, 108 

Domestic Science Schools — State Appropriation (A. 186, 

'12).... 57 

Donations to Public Schools (A. 158, '04) 58 

Draining School Premises 126 

Drinking Cups 127 

Drinking Water 127 

E 

Education, Compulsory for Orleans (A. 73, '12) 55 

Enumeration of School Children (S. 69, A. 214, '12) 36 

Expropriation of Property for School Sites (S. 1492, R. S., 

and A. 227, '02) 59 

Examination of Teachers (SS. 47-58. A. 214, '12) 29, 30 

Examining Committee 29, 30 

Exemptions from Jury Duty (A. 89, '94) 109 



Index — Continued iii 



Farmers' Co-Operation Demonstration Work (A. 69, '12) 44 

Fees of School Children (S. 9, A. 214, '12) 19 

Fees of Assessors (A. 213, '08) 59 

Fees of Tax Collector (SS. 1-2, A. 181, '08) 63 

Fines and Forfeited Bonds (S. 64, A. 214, '02) 65 

Fiscal Agent (A. 282, '08) 100-105 

Flag — improper use of (A. 34, '12) 43 

Flag— official for Louisiana (A. 39, '12) 44 

Forfeited Bonds (S. 1044, R. S.) 61 

Free Passage over Ferries, etc. (S. 10, A. 214, '12) 19 

Funds of Towns on Recision of Charters (A. 173, '94) . . . 106 

Funds, Deposit (A. 282, '08) 100 

Funds of Public Schools— sources (S. 2957, R. S.) 107 

G 

Garbage Cans 127 

Graduates exempted from certain examinations (SS. 60-62, 

A. 214, '12) 31, 32 

H 

Health Certificates — Teachers 126 

High Schools— how created (S. 9, A. 214. '12) 19 

High Schools — State Appropriation (A. 85, '12) 57 

Home Economics and Agriculture (A. 306, '10) 108 

I 

Indemnity Lands— how disposed of (A. 217, '02) 98, 99 

Inheritance Tax (A. 42. '12, and A. 45, '04) 51, 78-86 

Institute for Blind 119, 120 

Institute for Deaf and Dumb 120, 121 

Interest on Deposit Funds (S. 1328, R. S.) 65 

Jurors— Fees deducted (A. 87, '86) 87 

K 

Kindergarten Departments (S. 16, A. 214. '12) 21 

L 

Lake Beds— proceeds to schools (SS. 1-7, A. 124, '02) ... . 94 

Lectures on Sanitation 128 

Libraries for Schools (SS. 1-6, A. 202, '06) 110-112 

Light in School Buildings ' 125 

Local Trustetes (S. 18, A. 214, '12) 21 



iv Index — Continued 



PAGE 

Louisiana Industrial Institute 118, 119 

Louisiana State Normal School 115-117 

Louisiana State University 112-115 

Loyola University (A. 136, M2) 57 

M 

Minimum Number of Pupils (S. 11, A. 214, '12) 20 

N 

Number of Pupils to Constitute a School (S. 11, A. 214, 

'12) 20 

o 

Office of Parish Superintendent at Parish Seat (S. 32, 

A. "214, '12) 26 

Overlapping Boards (S. 5. A. 214, '12) 16, 17 

Orleans Schools (SS. 70-77, A. 214, '12) 36-42 

1. Assistant Superintendents (S. 71) 37 

2. Attendance officer (S. 71) 37 

3. City Council (S. 77) 42 

4. Duties of Board (S. 72) 38 

5. Duties of Superintendent (S. 74) 40 

6. Filling Vacancies (S. 70) 36 

7. School Board (S. 70) 36 

8. Superintendent of Schools (S. 70) 37 

9. Secretary (S. 71) 37 

10. Treasurer (SS. 75-76) 41 

P 

Parish Associations, Teachers (S. 39, A. 214, '12) 27 

Parish School Boards— how elected (S. 5, 214, '12) 16 

Parish Superintendent's Annual Report (S. 29, A. 214, 

'12) 25 

Parish Superintendent— election (S. 7, A. 214, '12) 17 

Parish Superintendent— qualifications (S. 27, A. 214, '12) 24 

Parish Superintendent— records (S. 30, A. 214, '12) 25 

Parish Superintendent— removal (S. 7, A. 214, '12) 17, 18 

Parish Superintendent — minimum salary (S. 27, A. 214, 

'12) 25 

Parish School Boards— meetings (S. 7, A. 214, '12) 18 

Plans of School Buildings 124, 125 

Police Jury, Three Mills for Schools 14, 15 

Poll Taxes— duty of Tax Collector (SS. 2, 3, A. 89, '88) . . 86 



Index — Continued 



PAGE 

Police Juries — Demonstration Farms (A. 145, '12, and 

SS. 1-3, A. 89, '88) 45, 86 

PoU Taxes— Orleans (A. 56,- '94) 88 

Prescription of Debts (A. 103, '80) 106 

President School Board (S. 7, A. 214, '12) 17 

President School Board— duties (S. 17, A. 214, '12) 21 

Pupils, Minimum (S. 11, A. 214, '12) 20 



Quarterly Reports — to State Supervisor of Public Ac- 
counts (SS. 5-10, A. 25, '10) 61, 63 

R 

Records Kept by Superintendents and Teachers (S. 63, 

A. 214, '12) 33 

Records, Military 52 

ReUgious Schools— No State Funds (S. 12, A. 214, '12) . . 20 

Reports of Parish Superintendents (S. 4, A. 214, '12) 16 

Revenues, Budget (S. 68, A. 214, '12) 25 

S 

Salary, Superintendent (S. 27, A. 214, '12) 25 

Sanitarv Regulations 124-128 

School Boards, overlapping (S. 5, A. 214, '12) 16, 17 

School Bonds (A. 256, '10) 66-78 

School Boards, attorneys for (A. 125, '12) 48 

School Childrens' Fees (S. 9, A. 214, '12) 19 

School Districts (S. 13, A. 214, '12) 20 

School Districts in Two Parishes (SS. 14-15, A. 214, '12) . 20 

School Children, enumeration (S. 69, A. 214, '12) 36 

School Libraries (SS. 1-6, A. 214, '12) 110-112 

School Session— daily (S. 16, A. 214, '12) 21 

School Sites, expropriation (S. 1492, R. S.) 59 

School Treasurer, duties (SS. 65-67, A. 214, '12) 34, 35 

Schools, how created (S. 7, A. 214, '12) 18 

School Fund, how applied (S. 1327, R. S.) 65 

School Houses, changing location (S. 7, A. 214, '12) 18, 19 

School Lands donated to State 105, 106 

Sixteenth Sections : 

1. Annulling Sale for Non-Payment (S. 2965, R. S.). 91 

2. Collecting Notes (SS. 1-4, A. 57, '84) 92 

3. Fixing Capital Due Schools (A. 96, '86) 93 

4. Interest Paid by State Treasurer, S. 2963, R. S.) . 91 



vi Index — Continued 



PAGE 

5. Compensation of Attorneys (A. 158, 10) 97, 98 

6. Lease of Lands 95 

7. Making up Deficiencies 100 

8. Riglits-of-Way Over (A. 14, '08) 89 

9. Sale of Uninhabitable Lands (A. 168, '94) 90, 91 

10. Sale of Timber 95, 96 

11. Sale of Sixteenth Sections (S. 2958, R. S., and 

S. 2960, R. S 88. 89 

12. Trespass (A. 14, '82, and A. 158, '10) 96 

13. Treasurer's Commission (A. 33, '59) 91 

14. Statement by Attorney General and Registrar 
sho:\dng location (A. 11, '12) .• 42 

15. Survey of (S. 2959, R. S.).' 88 

16. Swamp Lands, sale of (A. 151, '12) 50 

17. Vote Against Sale of (A. 54, '10) 94 

Spitting on Floors of School Houses 108, 125 

Special School Tax Elections (A. 256, '10) 66-74 

Southern University, Changing Location (A. 118, '12) . . 46 

State Board of Education, organization (S. 1. A. 214, '12) 15 

State Board of Education, duties (S. 3, A. 214, '12) 15 

State Superintendent, duties (SS. 19-25, A. 214, '12) ... . 22 

State Treasurer, accounts (S. 1326, R. S.) 64, 65 

State Institute Conductor, duties (S. 42, A. 214, '12) 28 

Subjects Taught (S. 16, A. 214, '12) 21 

Suspension of Pupils (S. 64, A. 214, '12) : 33 

Supervisor Public Accounts, quarterly reports (SS. 5-10). 61-63 

Superintendent's Reports to State Board of Health - 128 

Sweeping Floors of School Buildings 125 

Supreme Court Decisions : 

1. Apportioning School Funds 121 

2. All School Funds Handled by Parish School Board 123 

3. Discipline — Authority of teacher 121, 122 

4. District Attorney — No fee on fines ' 122 

5. Property exempted from taxation pays no special 
school taxes 123 

6. Members of partnership vote in special tax elec- 
tions 123 

7. Persons who have sold their property cannot vote 

it in special tax elections 123 

8. When widows can vote in special tax elections . . . 123 

9. School houses cannot be used as theaters 124 

T 

Tax Collector, Fees (S. 12) 63 

Teachers, Examination of (SS. 47-58, A. 214, '12) 29, 30 



Index — Continued vii 



PAGE 

Teachers, Election of (S. 7, A. 214, 12) 18 

Teachers, Dismissal (S. 46) 29 

Teachers' Institutes (SS. 34-45, A. 214, 12) ' 26 

Testing Eyes of Pupils (A. 292, '08) 60, 61 

Text-Books, adoption of (S. 2, A. 214, '12) 15, 16 

Trustees, local (S. 18, A. 214, 12) 20 

u 

Ursuline Nuns (A. 14, '12) 56 

V 

Vacancies in Parish School Boards — filling (S. 6, A. 214, 

'12) 17 

Vaccination of Pupils 126 

Ventilation of 'School Buildings 125 

w 

Women Eligible to Office (A. 162, '12, and S. 7, A. 214, 

'12) 54,17 

Witnesses and Jurors, Deducting Fees (A. 7, '86) 87 



STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 



Governor Luther E. Hall Baton Rouge 

SuPT. T. H. Harris Baton Rouge 

Hon. L. N. Larche Monroe 

Hon. D. C. Scarborough Natchitoches 

Hon. W. E. Krebs Lake Charles 

Hon. Robert JMartin St. Martinville 

Hon. J. Zagh Spearing New Orleans 

Hon. T. J. Butler Ponchatoula 

Hon, Ruffin G. Pleasant New Orleans 

Hon. D. M. Atkins Arcadia 



Articles of the Constitution Having Ref- 
erance to Public Education. 



(Art. 53. Limitation of Legislative Powers.) 

No money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, di- 
rectly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect or denomination 
of religion, or in aid of any priest, preacher, minister or teacher 
thereof, as such; and no preference shall ever be given to, nor 
any discrimination made against, any church, sect or creed of 
r.eligion, or any form of religious faith or worship; nor shall 

any appropriation be made for private, charitable or benevolent 
purposes to any person or community; provided, this shall not 

apply to the State Asylum for the Insane and State Institution 
for the Deaf and Dumb and State Institution for the Instruction 
of the Blind, and the charity hospitals and public charitable 
institutions conducted under State authority. 

(Art. 230. Educational Institutions Exempt from Taxation.) 

The following shall be exempt from taxation, and no other, 
viz : All public property, places of religious worship, or burial, 
all charitable -institutions, all buildings and property used ex- 
clusively for public monuments or historical collections, colleges 
and other school purposes, the real and personal estate of any 
library, and that of any other library association used by or 
connected with such library, all books and philosophical appa- 
ratus, and all paintings and statuary of any company or asso- 
ciation kept in a public hall ; provided, the property so exempted 
be not leased for purposes of private or corporate profit and 
income. ****** 

(Art. 231. Poll Tax of One Dollar.) 

The General Assembly shall levj^ an annual poll tax of one 
dollar upon every male inhabitant in the State between the ages 
of twenty-one and sixty years, for the maintenance of the public 
schools in the parishes where collected. 

(Art. 232. School Tax on a Vote of Property Taxpayers.) 

The State tax on property for all purposes whatever, includ- 
ing expenses of government, schools, levees and interest, shall 
not exceed in any one year, six mills on the dollar of its assessed 



valuation, and, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, 
no parish, municipal or public board tax for all purposes what- 
soever, shall exceed in any one year ten mills on the dollar of 
valuation ; provided, that for giving additional support to public 
schools, and for the purpose of erecting and constructing public 
buildings, public schoolhouses, bridges, wharves, levees, sewerage 
work and other works of permanent public improvement, the 
title to which shall be in the public, any parish, municipal cor- 
poration, ward or school district may levy a special tax in excess 
of said limitation, whenever the rate of such increase and the 
number of years it is to be levied and the purposes for which the 
tax is intended, shall have been submitted to a vote of the prop- 
erty taxpayers of each parish, ward or school district entitled 
to vote under the election laws of the State, and a majority of 
the same in numbers and in value voting at such election shall 
have voted therefor. 

(Art. 248. Free Schools; for Whom; Apportionment of Funds.) 

There shall be free public schools for the white and colored 
races, separately established by the General Assembly, through- 
out the State, for the education of all the children of the State 
between the ages of six and eighteen years ; provided, that where . 
kindergarten schools exist, children between the ages of four 
and six may be admitted into said schools. All funds raised 
by the State for the support of public schools, except the poll 
tax, shall be distributed to each parish in proportion to the num- 
ber of children therein between the ages of six and eighteen 
years. The General Assembly, at its next session, shall provide 
for the enumeration of educable children. 

(Art. 249, as amended by Act 28 of 1908. State Superintendent.) 

There shall be elected by the qualified electors of the State a 
Superintendent of Public Education, who shall hold his office for 
the term of four years, and until his successor is qualified. His 
duties shahll be prescribed by law, and he shall receive an annual 
salary of five thousand dollars. 

(Art. 250. State Board of Education; Parish Boards and Officers.) 

The General Assembly shall provide for the creation of a 
State Board and Parish Boards of Public Education. The Parish 



Boards shall elect a Parish Superintendent of Public Education 
for their respective parishes, whose qualifications shall be fixed 
by the Leeislature, and who shall be ex-officio secretary of the 
Parish Board. The salary of the Parish Superintendent shall 
be provided for by the General Assembly, to be paid out of the 
public school funds accruing to the respective parishes. 

(Art. 251. French May Be Taught.) 

The general exercises in the public schools shall be conducted 
in the English language ; provided, that the French language may 
be taught in those parishes or localities where the French lan- 
guage predominates, if no additional expense is incurred thereby. 

(Art. 252. Application of the Poll Tax.) 

The funds derived from the collection of the poll tax shall 
be applied exclusively to the maintenance of the public schools 
as organized under this Constitution, and shall be applied ex- 
clusively to the support of the public schools in the parish in 
which the same shall be collected, and shall be accounted for 
and paid by the collecting officer directly to the treasurer of . 
the local school board. 

(Art. 253. Private and Sectarian Schools Cannot Receive Public School 
Funds.) 

No funds raised for the support of the public schools of the 
State shall be appropriated to or used for the support of any 
private or sectarian schools. 

(Art. 254. School Funds— Of What They Shall Consist.) 

The school funds of the State shall consist of : 1st. Not less 
than one and one-quarter mills of the six mills tax levied and 
collected by the State. 2d. The proceeds of taxation for school 
purposes as provided by this Constitution. 3d. The interest on 
the proceeds of all public lands heretofore granted or to be 
granted by the United States for the support of the public 
schools, and the revenues derived from such lands as may remain 
unsold. 4th. All funds and property, other than unimproved 
lands, bequeathed or granted to the State, not designated for 
any other purpose. 5th. The proceeds of vacant estates falling 
under the law to the State of Louisiana. 6th. The legislature 
may appropriate to the same fund the proceeds of public lands 



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not designated or set apart for any other purpose, and shall 
provide that every parish may levy a tax for the public schools 
therein, which shall not exceed the entire State tax; provided, 
that Mdth such a tax the whole amount of parish taxes shall not 
exceed the limits of parish taxation fixed by this Constitution. 
The City of New Orleans shall make such appropriations for 
the support, maintenance and repair of the public schools of 
said city as it may deem proper, but not less than eight-tenths 
of one mill for one year; and said schools shall continue to 
receive from the Board of Liquidation of the City Debt, the 
amounts to which they are now entitled under the Constitutional 
amendment, adopted in the year 1892. 

(Art. 255. Louisiana State University and A. & M. College.) 

The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechan- 
ical College, founded upon land grants of the United States 
to endow a seminary of learning and a college for the benefit of 
agriculture and mechanic arts, now established and located in 
the City of Baton Rouge, is hereby recognized ; and all revenues 
derived and to be derived from the seminary fund, the Agricul- 
tural and Mechanical College fund, and other funds or lands 
donated to or to be donated by the United States to the State of 
Louisiana for the use of a seminary of learning or of a college 
for the benefit of agriculture or the mechanic arts, shall be ap- 
propriated exclusively to the maintenance and support of the 
said Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechan- 
ical College ; and the General Assembly shall make such addi- 
tional appropriations as may be necessary for its maintenance, 
support, and improvement, and for the establishment, in connec- 
tion with said institution, of such additional scientific or literary 
departments as the public necessities and the wellbeing of the 
people of Louisiana may require. 

The Tulane University of Louisiana, located in New Orleans, 
is hereby recognized as created, and to be developed in accord- 
ance with the provisions of the legislative act No. 43, approved, 
July 5th, 1884, and by approval of the electors, made part of 
the Constitution of the State. 



(Art. 256. Other State Schools.) 

The Louisiana State Normal School, established and located 
at Natchitoches; the Industrial Institute and College of Louisi- 
ana, whose name is hereby changed to the Louisiana Industrial 
Institute, established and located at Ruston; and the Southern 
University, now established in the City of New Orleans, for the 
education of persons of color, are hereby recognized; and the 
General Assembly is directed to make such appropriations from 
time to time as may be necessary for the maintenance, support 
and improvement of these institutions ; provided, that the appro- 
priation for the maintenance and support of the Southern Uni- 
versity shall not exceed ten thousand dollars per annum. 

(Art. 257. Interest Due the Townships.) 

' The debt due by the State to the free school fund is hereby 
declared to be the sum of one million, one hundred and thirty 
thousand, eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-one 
cents in principal, and shall be kept on the books of the Auditor 
and Treasurer to the credit of the several townships entitled to 
the same; the said principal being the proceeds of the sales of 
lands heretofore granted by the United States for the use and 
support of free public schools which amount shall be held by 
the State as a loan, and shall be and remain a perpetual fund, on 
which the State shall pay an annual interest of four per cent, 
and said interest shall be paid to the several townships of the 
State entitled to the same, in accordance with the Act of Con- 
gress, No. 68, approved February 15th, 1843. 

(Art. 258. Debt Due Seminary Fund.) 

The debt due by the State to the Seminary fund is hereby 
declared to be one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars, being 
the proceeds of the sale of lands heretofore granted by the 
United States to this State for the use of a seminary of learning, 
and said amount shall be kept to the credit of said fund on the 
books of the Auditor and Treasurer of the State as a perpetual 
loan, and the State shall pay an annual interest of four per cent 
on said amount. 

(Art. 259. Debt Due A. and M. College.) 

The debt due by the State, to the Agricultural and Mechan- 
ical College fund is hereby declared to be the sum of one hun- 



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drend and eighty-two thousand three hundred and thirteen dol- 
lars and three cents, being the proceeds of the sale of lands and 
land scrip heretofore granted by the United States to this State 
for the use of a college for the benefit of agricultural and 
mechanical arts; the said amount shall be kept to the credit of 
said fund on the books of the Auditor and Treasurer of the 
State as a perpetual loan, and the State shall pay an annual 
interest of five per cent on said amount. 

(Art. 260. How Interest Shall Be Paid.) 

The interest due on the free school fund, the seminarj^ fund 
and the Agricultural and Mechanical College fund, shall be paid 
out of any tax that may be levied and collected for the payment 
of the interest on the State debt. 

Art. 261. School Books for Indigent Pupils.) 

All pupils in the primary grades in the public schools 
throughout the Parish of Orleans, unable to provide themselves 
with the requisite books, an afBdavit to that effect having been 
made by one of the parents of such pupils, or if such parents 
be dead, shall be furnished with the necessary books free of 
expense, to be paid out of the school fund of said parish; and 
the School Board of the Parish of Orleans is hereby directed 
to appropriate annually not less than two thousand dollars for 
the purpose named, provided such amount be needed. 

(Art. 60. Establishment of Additional Educational or Charitable Insti- 
tutions.) 

. No educational or charitable institution, other than the State 
institutions now existing, or expressly provided for in this Con- 
stitution, shall be established by the State except upon a vote 
of two-thirds of the members elected to each House of the Gen- 
eral Assembly. 

(Art. 210. Eligibility to Office.) 

No person shall be eligible to any office. State, judicial, pa- 
rochial, municipal or ward, who is not a citizen of this State, and 
a duly qualified elector of the State, judicial district, parish, 
municipality or ward, wherein the functions of said office are 
to be performed. And whenever any officer, State, judicial, 



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parochial, municipal or ward, may change his residence from 
this State, or from the district, the same shall thereby be vacated, 
any declaration of retention of domicile ' to the contrary not- 
withstanding. 

(Art. 232. Limitation of State Tax; Of Other Taxing Bodies; When and 
How Special Taxes May Be Levied.) 

The State tax on property for all purposes whatever, in- 
cluding expenses of government, schools, levees and interest, 
shall not exceed, in any one year, six mills on the dollar of its 
assessed valuation, and except as otherwise provided in this 
Constitution, no parish, municipal or public board tax for all 
purposes whatsoever, shall exceed in any one year ten mills on 
the dollar of valuation; provided, that for giving additional 
support to public schools, and for the purpose of erecting and 
constructing public buildings, public schoolhouses, bridges, 
wharves, levees, sewerage work and other works of permanent 
public improvement, the title to which shall be in the public, any 
parish, municipal corporation, ward or school district may levy 
a special tax in excess of said limitation, whenever the rate of 
such increase and the number of years it is to be le\'ied and the 
purpose or purposes for which the tax is intended, shall have been 
submitted to a vote of the property taxpaye-rs of such parish, mu- 
nicipality, ward or school district entitled to vote under the elec- 
tion laws of the State, and a majority of the same in numbers, 
and in value voting at such election shall have voted therefor. 

(Art. 235. Inheritance Tax for Public Schools.) 

The Legislature shall have power to levy, solely for the sup- 
port of the public schools, a tax upon all inheritances, legacies 
and donations; provided, no direct inheritance, or donation, to 
any ascendant or descendant, below ten thousand dollars in 
amount or value shall be so taxed; provided, further, that no 
such tax shall exceed three per cent for direct inheritances and 
donations to ascendants or descendants, and ten per cent for 
collateral inheritances, and donations to collaterals or strangers ; 
provided, bequests to educational, religious or charitable institu- 
tions shall be exempt from this tax. 



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(Art. 236.) 

The tax provided for in the preceding article shall not be 
enforced when the property donated or inherited shall have borne 
its just proportion of taxes prior to the time of such donation 
or inheritance. 

(Art. 281, as amended by Act 197 of 1910. School Bonds and Special 
Taxes.) 

Municipal Corporations, parishes or school, drainage, sub- 
drainage, road, navigation, or sewerage districts, the City of 
New Orleans excepted, hereinafter referred to as subdivisions, 
when authorized to do so, by a vote of a majority in number 
and amount of the property taxpayers, qualified to vote under 
the Constitution and laws of this State, who vote at an election 
held for that purpose, after due notice of said election has been 
published for thirty (30) days in the official journal of the mu- 
nicipal corporation or parishes, and where there is no official 
journal, in a newspaper published therein, may "through their 
respective governing authorities" incur debt and issue negotia- 
ble bonds therefor, and each year while any bonds issued to evi- 
dence said indebtedness are outstanding, the governing authori- 
ties of such subdivision shall levy and collect annually, in excess 
of all other taxes, a tax sufficient to pay the interest, annually 
or semi-annually, and the principal falling due each year, or 
such amount as may be required for any sinking fund provided 
for the payment of said bonds at maturity ; provided, that such 
special taxes, for all purposes, shall not in any year exceed ten 
(10) mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of the property 
in such subdivisions. 

No bonds shall be issued for any other purpose than that 
stated in the submission of the proposition to the taxpayer, and 
published for thirty (30) days as aforesaid, or for a greater 
amount than therein mentioned; nor shall such bonds be issued 
for any other purpose than for constructing, improving and 
maintaining public roads and highways, paving and improving 
streets, roads and alleys, purchasing or constructing systems of 
waterworks, sewerage, drainage, navigation, lights, public parka 
and buildings, together with all necessary equipments and fur- 
nishing, bridges and other works of public improvement, the 



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title to which shall rest in the subdivision creating the debt, as 
the case may be; nor shall such bonds run for a longer period 
than forty years (40) from their date or bear a greater rate of 
interest than five per cent (5) per annum, or be sold for less 
than par. The total issue of bonds by any subdivision for all 
purposes shall never exceed ten per centum (10) of the as- 
sessed valuation of the property in such subdivisions. 

Municipal councils shall have authority to create within their 
respective limits one or more sewerage districts; and nothing 
herein contained shall prevent drainage districts from being 
established under the laws of this State shall, in addition to the 
powers hereinabove granted, have the further power and au- 
thority to levy and assess annual contributions or acreage taxes 
on all lands situated in such districts, for the purpose of pro- 
viding and maintaing drainage systems, not exceeding fifty 
(50) cents per acre for a period not exceeding forty (40) years, 
w^hen authorized to do so by a majority in number and amount 
of the property taxpayers of said district, qualified to vote un- 
der the Constitution and laws of this State, who vote at an 
election held for that purpose and in the manner provided in 
the first part of this Article, and said drainage districts, through 
the Boards of Commissioners thereof, when authorized as here- 
inabove provided, "may incur debt and issue negotiable bonds 
therefor, payable in principal and interest out of and not to ex- 
ceed in principal and interest, the aggregate amount to be 
raised by said annual contributions or acreage taxes during the 
period for which the same are levied. No such drainage bonds 
shall be issued for any other purpose than that for which said 
contributions or acreage taxes were voted or run for a longer 
period than forty (40) years from their date or bear a greater 
rate of interest than five (5) per cent per annum or be sold for 
less than par. 

When the character of any land is such that it must be 
levied and pumped in order to be drained and reclaimed, the 
Board of Drainage Commissioners of the district in which the 
land is situated, shall, upon petition of not less than a ma- 
jority in acreage of the property taxpayers, resident and non- 
resident, in the area to be affected, ascertain the cost of drain- 



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age and reclaiming said land and incur debt against said land 
for an amount sufficient to drain and reclaim it, and issue for 
said debt negotiable bonds running not longer than forty (40) 
years from their date and b.earing interest at a rate not ex- 
ceeding five (5) per centum per annum, payable annually or 
semi-annually, which bonds shall not be sold for less than par; 
and said Board of Drainage Commissioners shall levy annually 
upon said land forced contributions or acreage taxes in an 
amount sufficient to maintain the drainage of said land and to 
pay the interest, annually or semi-annually, and the principal 
falling due each year, or such amount as may be required for 
any sinking fund provided for the payment of said bonds at 
maturity; provided, that such forced contribution or acreage 
taxes, for all purposes shall never exceed Three Dollars and 
Fifty Cents ($3.50) per acre per annum. 

The police juries of the various parishes throughout the 
State, for the purpose of constructing highways and public 
buildings for the parish, and the governing authorities of mu- 
nicipal corporations, for the purpose of paving or improving 
streets or alleys, or for other municipal improvements, after 
making provision for the payments of all statutory and ordi- 
nary charges, may fund into bonds running for a period not ex- 
ceeding ten (10) years, and bearing interest at a rate not ex- 
ceeding five (5) per centum per annum, which bonds shall not 
be sold for less than par, the avails of the residue of the ten 
(10) mill tax authorized by Article 232 of the Constitution of 
Louisiana." 

(Three- Mill Tax for Support of Schools. Act 257 of 1910.) 

The police juries of the several parishes and boards of trus- 
tees and muicipal councils of incorporated cities and towns 
(the Parish of Orleans excepted) shall levy, collect and turn 
over to the parish school boards of their respective parishes for 
the support of the public schools of their respective parishes, 
cities or towns, the proceeds of at least three mills of the annual 
tax which they are empowered to levy on each dollar of the 
assessed valuation of the property thereof; provided that cities 
and towns that are not exempted by the terms of their charters 
from the payment of parish taxes and which are subjected to 



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the similar burdens of taxation as are the parishes shall not pay 
this tax, as same is included in the taxes imposed by the parish 
in which the town is situated, "unless the parish boards of 
school directors of that parish certify that the needs of the 
schools can be met by a smaller levy of such taxes." 

ACT No. 214 OF 1912 

Section 1. The Governor, Superintendent of Public Edu- 
cation and the Attorney General, together with as many citizens 
appointed by the Governor as there are Congressional Districts, 
being one from each congressional district of the State, shall 
be a body politic, and corporate by the name and style of the 
Board of Education for the State of Louisiana, with authority 
to sue and defend suits in all matters relating to the public 
schools. The above specified citizens shall receive as compen- 
sation for their services in attending the meetings of the board, 
their actual traveling expenses and per diem for the number of 
days that the board is in session, the same as members of the 
State Legislature, payable on their warrants, approved by the 
president and secretary of the board, out of the current school 
fund. 

Section 2. The Governor shall be ex-officio president, and the 
State Superintendent, secretary of said Board. The State Super- 
intendent shall be authorized to appoint an assistant secretary 
for this office. The Board shall meet on or before the first 
Monday in December of each year, and at other times when 
called by the Governor. The acts of the Board shall be attested 
by the signature of the president and secretary of the Board. 
All papers, documents, and records appertaining to the Board 
shall be filed by the Secretary in the office of the State Super- 
intendent of Public Education. The Board may direct the pro- 
ceedings of the State Board of Education to be published in the 
official journal of the State or in an official pamphlet. 

Section 3. The State Board of Education shall prepare rules, 
by-laws and regulations for the government of the public schools 
of the State, which shall be enforced by the Parish Superintend- 
ent and the several School boards, and shall give such directions 
as it may deem proper as to the branches of study which shall 
be taught. The State Board .of Education shall strictly enforce 



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a uniformity of text-books in all of the public schools of the State, 
and shall adopt a list thereof which shall remain unchanged for 
six years after such adoption. Not more than three subjects or 
parts of subjects of the elementary grades. and not more than 
two of the following high school subjects can be changed at any 
one adoption, to-wit : Algebra, English Grammar, Composition 
and Rhetoric, Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Geometry, American 
'History, Ancient History, Mediaeval and Modern History, and 
of the remaining high school subjects not more than five can be 
changed at any adoption, provided that any text book used in the 
schools of this State may be changed at any time upon the writ- 
ten application of forty parish school boards, as per resolution 
of said boards duly certified to the State Board of Education; and 
all contracts for the adoption of text-books for use in the public 
Schools shall cover a period of six years. The adoption of ele- 
mentary, text-books and high school books shall be made in pe- 
riods of three years apart, and, for the purpose of carrying out 
this provision the first adoption of high school text-books shall 
be made in the year 1913 and the first adoption of elementary 
text-books shall be made in the year 1916. 

The mode or procedure for the announcement of bids, award- 
ing of contracts, location of depositories for the distribution of 
school text-books shall be left to the State Board of Education. 

Section 4. The State Board of Education may require reports 
to be made by the parish superintendent whenever the interest 
of the common schools indicate the necessity of other reports 
than are now required. 

Section 5. There shall be elected by the qualified voters of each 
police jury ward of the several parishes of the State a member 
of the Board of Directors of the Public Schools of such parish 
for each police juror in said ward. The first election above pro- 
vided for shall take place the same time as the congressional 
election in 1912. As soon as the Boards as above pi^ovided for 
have qualified, each Board shall by resolution divide the member- 
ship by wards into three divisions as nearly equal as possible, 
the members of the first group shall hold office for two years, 
the members of the second group for four years, and the members 
of the third group for six years. The successors of the members 



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in the several groups shall be elected for terms of sis years. 
That the compensatiou of said members of the school board is 
hereby fixed at three dollars for each day that he may be re- 
quired to attend the meetings of the board, and five cents a 
mile he may travel to and from the meetings of said board. The 
Board of Directors as now constituted shall hold their office until 
their successors shall have been elected as provided for in this 
Act. The qualifications of a person to be a member of a school 
board shall be that he be a qualified elector in the ward from 
which he is elected, able to read and write, who does not hold 
any office or position of honor, trust or emolument, city, parish 
or State ; or hold any permanent employment in any capacity by 
any board, department or officer, city, parish or State ; notaries 
public, and justices of the peace being excepted; provided, that 
should the Constitution of this State be so amended so as to per- 
mit women to be members of Boards of Fu])lic Schools then and 
in that event they shall be eligible to membership on the various 
Boards of Directors provided for in this Act. 

Should any vacancy occur in any School Board by deaths, 
resignation or otherwise, the same shall be filled by appointment 
by the Governor for the unexpired term ; provided, that the un- 
expired term shall not be for a longer period than 12 months; 
otherwise to be filled by special election. 

A majority of the membership of such board shall constitute a 
quorum thereof for the transaction of business. 

Section 6. The several school boards are constituted bodies 
corporate, with power to sue and be sued under the name and 
style of the "Board of Directors of the Public Schools of the 

Parish "as the ease may be. Citation 

shall be served on the president of the Board, and in his absence 
on the vice-president. 

Section 7. The Boards of Directors of the several parishes 
shall elect from among their number a president and a vice- 
president. They shall also elect or appoint a Parish Superin- 
tendent having the qualifications hereinafter required, for a 
period of four years, the first superintendents under this Act to 
take office July 1st, 1913 ; provided, that, if at any time a parish 
superintendent should be found incompetent, inefficient, or un- 



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worthy, he shall be .for such cause removable by a vote of two- 
thirds of the full membership of the Parish School Board. The 
Board of Directors shall report to the State Board of Education 
all deficiencies in the schools or neglect of duty on the part of the 
teachers, superintendents, or other officers. The members of 
the Board of Directors shall visit and examine the schools in 
the several school districts of the parish from time to time, and 
they shall meet and advise with the trustees when occasion re- 
quires. 

The board shall determine the number of schools to be open- 
ed, the location of the schoolhouses, the number of teachers to 
be employed, select such teachers from nominations made by the 
Parish Superintendents, provided that two-thirds of the full 
membership of the board may elect teachers without the en- 
dorsement of the superintendent. The board shall fix the salaries 
of the teachers. And the Board of Directors is entrusted with 
seeing that the provisipns of the State School laws are complied 
with. Each Board of Directors shall make such rules and by laws 
for its own government, not inconsistent with law, as it deems 
proper. The regular meeting of each board shall be held on the 
first Saturday of January, April, July and October, and it may 
hold such special or adjourned meetings as the board may deter- 
mine or as occasion may require. Each Board of Directors shall 
exercise proper vigilance in securing for the schools of the par- 
ish all funds destined for the support of the schools, including 
the State funds apportioned thereto, the poll tax, collectible, and 
all -other funds. The Secretary shall keep a record of all trans- 
actions and proceedings of the board. 

The board of Directors may receive land by purchase or do- 
nation for the purpose of erecting schoolhouses, provided for 
and secure the erection of same, construct such out buildings 
and enclosures as shall be conducive to the protection of 
property and make repairs and provide the necessary furniture 
equipment and apparatus. All contracts for improvements shall 
be to the lowest bidder, the board reserving the right to reject 
any and all bids. They shall have the power to recover for any 
damage that may be done to the property in their charge; they 
may, by a two-thirds vote of the whole board after due notice 



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change the location of the sehoolhouse, sell or dispose of the old 
site, and use the proceeds thereof toward procuring a new one. 

Section 8. The District Attorney of the district shall act as 
counsel for the Board of Directors, except in and for the Parish 
of Orleans, where the City Attorney of the City of New Orleans 
shall act as counsel for the board of School Directors of said 
Parish, but neither the District Attorney nor the said City At- 
torney shall receive anj^ extra fee, compensation, or allowance 
for such service. 

Section 9. The Board of Directors, the Parish of Orleans ex- 
cepted, shall have authority to establish graded schools, and to 
adopt such a system in that connection as may be necessary to 
secure their success. Central or high schools may be established 
when necessary, but no such school shall be established without 
the sanction of the State Board of Education and unless the 
amount be donated for the site, and suitable buildings are pro- 
vided for without any expense out of the school fund. The Board 
of Directors shall have the authority to assess and collect fifty 
cents per annum from the parent or guardian of each child en- 
rolled in the public schools of a parish or district, to be collected 
in such manner as the said board shall determine; provided that* 
no parent or guardian be required to pay more than one dollar 
and fifty cents. The amount thus collected shall be used in 
providing the necessary fuel and other comforts of the school. 

Section 10. The free right of passage or conveyance over all 
public ferries, bridges and roads which are rented out by the 
State, Parish, or municipality, or over which the State or Parish, 
or municipality, exercises any control, or for which license is paid 
or toll exacted, be and is hereby granted to all children attending 
the public schools; and no tolls or fees shall be demanded or 
exacted from said children by the keepers or attendants of said 
ferries, bridges or roads in their passage to and from school be- 
tween the hours of 7 o'clock A. M. and 9 o'clock A. M. and 4. 
o'clock P. M. and 6 o'clock P. M. ; provided, that on Sundays and 
holidays no children shall have the right to cross said such 
ferries, bridges, or roads on terms different from those of any 
ordinary passenger. The provision of the foregoing section shall 
apply to the parish of Orleans as well as other parts of the State. 



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Section 11. No school of less than ten pupils shall be opened 
or maintained in any locality. 

Section 12. The boards of directors of the public schools of 
the several parishes of this State are prohibited from entering 
into any contract, agreement, understanding or combination, 
tacitly, or expressly, directly or indirectly, with any church, 
monastic or other religious order or association of any religious 
sect or denomination whatsoever, or with the representatives 
thereof, for the purpose of running any public school or schools 
of this State, together or in connection or in combination with 
any private or parochial school, or other institution of learning 
which may be under the control, authority, supervision, adminis- 
tration or management of any church, monastic or other religious 
order or association of any religious sect or denomination what- 
soever. 

Section 13. It shall be the duty of the parish board with the 
parish superintendent to divide the parish into school districts of 
such proper and convenient area and shape as will best accom- 
modate the children of the Parish. The Parish Board of Direct- 
ors shall as soon as practicable proceed to the work imposed upon 
them and upon the completion of the work they shall make a 
report to the parish superintendent, which report shall contain 
the boundary and description of said district, designated by num- 
ber. The parish superintendent shall record the same in a well 
bound book kept by him for that purpose, which book shall be 
held by the parish superintendent and be at all times open to 
inspection. Parish Boards, if they deem it to be for the best in- 
terest of the schools, may divide the parish into districts without 
reference to the wards in the parish. 

Section 14. The Parish Board of Directors of two adjoining 
parishes, where the division line intersects a neighborhood whose 
convenience requires it, may lay off a district composed of parts 
of both parishes. Such districts shall be reported by the Super- 
intendent, together with a census of the school children only 
as belonging to the parish in which the schoolhouse may be sit- 
uated, and reports shall be made by the assessor and parish super- 
intendent as though the district lay entirely in such district. 

Section 15. Where two school districts adjoin, it shall be 
lawful for the children in either of said districts to be taught in 



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and at such schoolhoiise as shall be most convenient to them; 
provided, that the tuition fee shall be paid to the district in 
which they are taught, and that no charge be made without the 
consent of the school boards of the respective parishes. 

Section 16. The branches of orthography, reading, writing, 
drawing, arithmetic, geography, grammar, United States History, 
the laws of Health, including the evil effects of alcohol and nar- 
cotics, shall be taught in every district. In addition to these, 
sueli other branches shall be taught as the State Board of Edu- 
cation and the Parish School Boards may require ; provided, 
that these elementary branches may also be taught in the French 
language in those localities where the French language is spoken ; 
but no additional expense shall be incurred for this cause. No 
public school in the State shall open later than 9 A. M. or 
close earlier than 3 P. M. ; provided, this shall not be construed 
so as to prevent half day sessions where the school accommoda- 
tions are insufficient for all the pupils of the district in a whole 
daj^ session. Nor shall it interfere with an}' arrangements made 
for the conduct of the Kindergarten schools ; provided that, in the 
parish of Orleans the Board of School Directors may fix the 
hours of session of the public schools. A school week shall consist 
of five days. 

Section 17. The President of the Board of Directors shall 
preside at all meetings of the Board, call meetings when neces- 
sary, advise with and assist the parish superintendent and di- 
rectors in promoting the success of the schools and generally to 
do and perform all other acts and duties pertaining to his office 
as president of the board. All deeds and contracts for the 
schools shall be signed liy him ; the contracts with teachers shall 
be signed by the parish superintendent. 

Section 18. There shall be selected l)y the patrons of each 
local school district in the manner to be provided bj' the Board 
of School Directors of the parish in which the school district is 
located, the parish of Orleans excepted, three auxiliary visiting 
trustees who shall have the same qualification as members of the 
Parish Board of Directors. The said trustees shall visit the 
schools of their respective districts and shall make quarterly 
reports to the Parish Board of Directors of the actual condition 
of the schools and shall make needful suggestions in all matters 
relating to the schools of which they are trustees. 



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STATE SUPERINTENDENT. 

Section 19. A suitable office shall be provided for the State 
Superintendent of Public Education at the seat of government, 
in Avhich he shall file, each year separately, all papers, reports 
and public documents transmitted to him by the Board and 
officers whose duty it is to report to him, and hold the same in 
readiness to be examined by the Governor, whenever he sees 
proper, and by any committee appointed by the General As- 
sembly ; and he shall cause to be kept a record of all matters ap- 
pertaining to his office. In case of vacancy in the office of Super- 
intendent of Public Education, the Governor shall fill the va- 
cancy and submit the name of the appointee to the Senate for 
its confirmation at the first session held after the appointment. 

Section 20. The salary of the State Superintendent of Public 
Education shall be five thousand dollars per annum, besides 
which he shall be entitled to office fixtures, stationery, books,^ 
fuel, and fight and everything needed to carry on the work of his 
office. He shall have authority to appoint a clerk and a porter 
and prescribe the duties of each; provided that the entire ex- 
penses of his office including salaries, postage and incidentals, 
shall not exceed the specified appropriation therefor, payable 
in monthly installments, out of the current school fund, by the 
Treasurer of the State, upon warrants of the State Superin- 
tendent. 

Section 21. The State Superintendent of Public Education 
shall have general supervision of all school boards in the parishes, 
of all common, high and normal schools of the State, and shall see 
that the school system of the State is carried properly into effect. 
He shall be ex-officio a member of the board of supervisors of the 
State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, the 
State Normal School, the State Industrial School at Ruston, the 
State Industrial School at Lafayette, the State Institute for the 
Deaf and Dumb, the State Institute for the Blind, the Southern 
University, and of all other institutions of learning under the con- 
trol of the State or aided in whole or in part by the State. He 
shall visit all the parishes of the State as often as practicable, and 
shall give due notice of the time of his visit to the parish super- 
intendent whose duty it shall be to meet and confer with the 



State Superintendent on all matters connected with the interest 
of the public schools of the parish. His expenses incurred in the 
discharge of his duty shall be paid out of the current school 
fund, but shall not exceed the amount appropriated per annum 
for the purpose. He shall keep an account of all orders draAvn 
or countersigned by him on the Auditor and of all returns of 
settlements ; when ever required any part of this account shall 
be furnished by the Auditor. 

Section 22. He shall biennially on or before the meetings of 
the Gieneral Assembly, make a report of the condition and prog- 
ress made and possible improvements to be made in the public 
schools. The amount and 'condition of the school funds ; how its 
revenues during the two previous years have been distributed ; the 
amount collected and disbursed for public school purposes from 
local taxation, or from any other source of revenue, and how the 
same was expended. This report shall contain an abstract of the 
parish and city superintendents reports. He shall communicate all 
facts, statistics and information as are of interest to the public 
schools. He shall cause to be printed a sufficient number of copies 
for the distribution among the members of the General Assembly, 
the State officials, parish school boards, libraries, and superin- 
tendents of other States and Territories, and to meet all ex- 
changes of educational reports. 

Section 23. The superintendent in his report shall set forth 
the objects, and make suggestions which may be of interest and 
promote the success, of all institutions of learning under his su- 
pervision. The superintendent of these institutions shall annually, 
by the first of March, furnish the State Superintendent of Public 
Education such statements of their respective institutions as may 
be necessary to enable him to make a full and satisfactory report. 

Section 24. Certified copies of records and papers in his office 
shall in all cases be received and admitted in lieu of the originals. 
He is authorized to make copies, when requested by any person so 
to do, of any papers deposited or filed in his office, and of any act 
or decision made by him, and certify the same, and he may de- 
mand therefor payment at the rate fo twenty-five cents per one 
hundred words. 

Section 25. It is made the duty of the State Superintendent of 
Public Education to report to the State Boai'd of Education all 



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neglect of duty on part of any school director, superintendent, or 
teacher, or any improper use of school funds whenever it may 
come to his knowledge. He shall hold annually conventions in the 
several -institute districts, selecting the most convenient and ac- 
cessible points, for the purpose of consultation, advice and in- 
struction with Parish Superintendents in regard to supervision 
and management of parish schools. 

Section 26. The Attorney General when called upon by the 
State Superintendent of Public Education, the State Board of 
Education, any Board of Directors, or any Parish Superintend- 
ent, shall give his opinion in regard to any controversy or dis- 
pute, affecting any such officers or boards, or relating to their 
respective rights or duties or affecting the schools under their 
charge, or any of them. The State Superintendent of Public Edu- 
cation shall whenever required, give advice, explanations, con- 
structions or information to the district officers and superin- 
tendents and to the citizens relative to the public school law, 
the duties of the public school officers, the rights and duties of 
parents, guardians, pupils, and all officers, the management of 
the schools, and all other questions calculated to promote the 
cause of education. He shall perform all other duties imposed 
upon him by law. 

PARISH SUPERINTENDENT. 

Section 27. The Board of Directors of the public schools 
throughout the State shall elect or appoint a superintendent of 
public schools who shall hold office for a period of four years. 
He shall not be otherwise employed except, in a parish having 
fewer than thirty white teachers the parish superintendent may 
act as principal of a public school, shall be a person of high 
moral character, of recognized executive ability, and a practical 
educator who holds at least, a first grade certificate and who 
has had at least three years teaching experience within the five 
years next preceding his election, or who has served as a parish 
superintendent during at least one year of the three years next 
preceding his election. Outstanding certificates that are valid 
making their holders eligible to the office of parish superin- 
tendent shall not be affected by the provisions of this Act. This 
shall apply to all superintendents and assistant superintendents 



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now in office, Orleans parish included, and all persons who have 
secured eligibility certificates by examination but who are not 
at this time holding the office of Parish Superintendent. 

The Parish Superintendent shall be ex-officio secretary of the 
Board of Directors in each parish of the State, the parish of Or- 
leans excepted, his salary shall be fixed by the Board of Di- 
rectors provided, that in no case shall it be less than six hun- 
dred dollars ($600.00) per annum. 

Section 28. He shall during the j-ear visit once, at least, each 
sehool district in the parish, and he shall exert his best endeavors 
in promoting the cause of common school education. To this 
end he shall faithfully carry out the requirements of the State 
School Law and the rules and regulations made for the schools 
by the State Board of Education. 

Section 29. It shall be the duty of each parish superintend- 
ent on or before the tenth day of July each year, to cause to be 
placed in the hands of the Superintendent of Public Education 
the official report of his parish schools for the previous years, the 
districts in which the schools are taught, and the length of time 
taught, the number of children at school, the cost of tuition of 
each child, per month and for the session, the number of private 
schools, colleges and academies taught in the" parish and the 
length of the session of the same ; the number of teachers em- 
ployed, male, female, white and colored, the average wages of 
male teachrs, female teachers, the amount of money raised for 
school purposes in the parish by local taxation or otlierwise, and 
for what purpose it was disbursed, the number and kind of 
schoolhouses, the actual or approximate value of each, the num- 
ber of school libraries and the number of volumes in each and 
the increase during the session and the amount received "and 
expended for them. In case of neglect or failure to make this 
report in the time required he shall forfeit and pay the sum 
of ten dollars per week, or fraction of a week thereof, for the 
full time of his delinquency said amount to be collected by the 
Parish Board for the benefit of the institute fund of the State. 

Section 30. Each parish superintendent shall keep a record 
of all business transacted by him as parish superintendent, the 
names, numbers and description of school districts, the tabula- 
tion of reports of school principals made monthly to him by the 



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principals of the schools of his parish and all other papers, 
books and documents of value connected with his office ; and they 
shall be at all times subject to inspection and examination by the 
State. Superintendent of Public Education, or by any school 
officer or citizen. In addition to his annual report to the State 
Superintendent of Public Education hereinbefore provided for, 
which shall be made in accordance with instructions of the State 
Superintendent, he shall furnish to the Department of Educa- 
tion such narrative, and such information as the State Super- 
intendent or the State Board of Education may from time to 
time require of him. 

Section 31. The parish superintendent may administer the 
oath required of any of the officials of the common schools or 
of any person required to make oath in any manner relating 
thereto, except to qualify directors. 

Section 32. He shall maintain his office at the parish seat 
and shall keep the same open during the usual office hours 
to receive the reports of teachers and others and to transact 
the business required of him except during the time he is visit- 
ing schools or attending to his duties elsewhere. 

Section 33. The parish superintendents shall make quarterly 
reports to the parish board of directors upon the condition of the 
schools under his supervision. The secretary shall keep full min- 
utes of all proceedings of the Board in a book provided for that 
purpose, and shall do and perform all other acts and duties 
legally pertaining to the office of the Secretary of the Board. 

TEACHERS INSTITUTES. 

Section 34. There shall be established and maintained by the 
State Institute Fund, in conjunction with the Peabody Institute 
Fund, Summer Normal Schools in this State, with sessions of 
not less than four weeks. 

Section 35. Other institutes may be held when ordered by 
the State Board of Education or under special laws ordering 
such institutes to be held. Every teacher of a common school 
must attend the sessions upon penalty for nonattendance if 
satisfactory excuse has not been rendered to the parish super- 
intendent, of forfeiting two days' pay. There shall be a vaca- 



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tion of the common schools of the parishes to give opportunities to 
the teachers to attend; and no reduction of the teacher's salary 
shall be made during said vacation, provided he or she was in 
attendance the full time of the session of the Institute. These 
institutes, held under this section, shall, as far as possible, be 
held in some town centrally located and teachers from as many 
parishes as can conveniently attend shall be notified to attend. 
This notice they shall obey, under the penalty before mentioned. 

Section 36. The State Board of Education shall act as a 
Board of State Institute Managers and in their discretion shall 
select an experienced institute conductor who shall have general 
charge of the summer normal work, and whose services shall be 
paid for out of the institute funds in such manner as shall be 
agreed upon by the Board named in this Act. The institute 
conductor shall be secretary of the Board. 

Section 37. The managers of the summer normal schools 
shall issue certificates of attendance to each teacher present dur- 
ing the whole of their sessions, and the parish boards of school 
, directors shall give preference, other things being equal, to 
the holders of said certificates in the selection of teachers for the 
public schools. 

Section 38. The conductors of the State (one week) Institutes 
shall make a full report of their work, giving the names of the 
teachers in attendance with a detailed account of all institute 
funds received and disbursed, to the State Superintendent of 
Public Education for publication in his biennial report to the 
General Assembly and to the Board of the Peabody Education 
Fund. 

Section 39. It shall be the duty of every parish superin- 
tendent, the parish of Orleans excepted, to conduct a teachers' 
institute or association, one Saturday of every month, or in 
his discretion, on a Friday and Saturday of every alternate 
month during the time the public schools are in session in his 
parish, in each institute district. 

Section 40. The parish superintendent shall notify all teach- 
ers of the time and place of the monthly or bi-monthly institute 
meetings, and it shall be the duty of all teachers in the parish 
to attend these meetings and to take such part in the exercises 
as the superintendent may indicate. Such teachers as fail to 



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be present, or, being present, refuse to perform the part assigned 
to them on the program by the superintendent at such institute 
meetings, shall forfeit one day's salary for each absence or one 
day's salary for each failure to perform the part assigned them on 
the program by the superintendent. The amount so forfeited shall 
be deducted from such teacher's next monthly warrant by the 
superintendent and by him credited to the institute fund of 
the parish to be set aside and used exclusively for institute work 
in the said parish. 

Section 4]. Boards of Directors are hereby authorized and 
empowered and shall pay to each teacher attending an institute 
or association meeting, two dollars per day for each monthly 
meeting or bi-monthly meeting and three cents per mile each 
way to and from said meetings, actually and necessarily traveled, 
provided, that when the institute is held on regular school days 
teachers shall only receive their regular pay as teachers for such 
attendance. 

Section 42. It shall be the duty of the State Institute Con- 
ductor to formulate the programs for teachers' institutes or asso- 
ciation meetings and it shall be the duty of the State Board 
of Education to formulate the State Reading Course, for teachers 
yearly, and it shall be the duty of the parish Superintendent 
to consult the State Institute Conductor relative to conducting 
teachers institutes and when conducting teachers institutes or as- 
sociations to follow the programs and the State Reading Course 
for teachers so prepared as aforesaid. The parish superintendent 
shall forfeit five dollars for each institute or association he fails to 
cause to be held, or fails to conduct, as required by this Act, un- 
less physically unable to attend or for other valid reasons appear- 
ing to the satisfaction of the school board ; the said fines shall be 
collected by the school board and credited to the institute fund, as 
provided in this Act. The daily session of the teachers institute 
or association shall not be less than five hours per day actual work. 

Section 43. The Parish Superintendent, at the opening of 
the institute meeting, shall cause a roll of teachers to be prepared, 
which roll shall be called at least twice during each daily ses- 
sion of the institute. Ife shall ascertain the number of teachers 
in attendance and the length of time each attends, and he shall 
carefully note the names of all absentees, and to this end he shall 



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keep a record and at the end of the school session he shall make 
an annual report to the State Institute Conductor of the insti- 
tute work in his parish for the year upon blanks furnished him 
by the State Institute Conductor for said purpose. 

Section 44. The Parish' Superintendents shall, before the be- 
ginning of regular public school term, appoint a competent 
teachers of his parish as institute manager for each district, if 
there be more than one institute district in his parish ; and such 
institute manager shall be paid three dollars per day as com- 
pensation for actual services in holding such institutes, or for 
assisting the superintendent while holding said teachers insti- 
tutes; provided, that when the teachers institute is held on a 
regular school day, the compensation of the institute managers 
shall be their regular salary and no more. 

Section 45. The provisions of this Act relating to teachers 
institutes shall not be compulsory in the Parish of Orleans, but 
the school board of said Parish at its election may conduct such 
teachers' institutes provided for herein in the same manner and 
with the same power and authority as herein set forth. 

Section 46. If at any time a teacher becomes incompetent, 
inefficient or unwortliy of the endorsement given him or her, the 
parish superintendent shall have the power to suspend such 
teacher and immediately shall report such fact to the board 
of directors of the public schools of his parish and the said 
board shall take such action as the nature of the case warr- 
ants. The services of any teacher may be dispensed with at any 
time bj^ the board of directors'. Any teacher dismissed under the 
above provisions shall receive payment for his services for the 
current month. 

Section 47. The State Board of Education shall take entire 
charge of the examination of public school teachers. The Board 
shall appoint an examining committee of as many members as 
may be required and fix the salaries of the members of the com- 
mittee. 

Section 48. The following grades of certificates shall be is- 
sued by the examining committee : Special High School Certifi- 
cates, valid for five years ; First Grade Certificates, valid for five 
years; Second Grade Certificates, valid for three years; Third 
Grade Certificates, valid for one year. The State Board of Edu- 



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cation shall determine the subjects which shall be used in the 
examination for any of the grades of certificates. 

Section 49. The State Board of Education shall have 
authority to exempt from examination graduates of standard 
colleges and State Nor mal Schools located in other States, pro- 
vided that in all cases the examining committee shall have 
authority to examine such graduates in such subject or sub- 
jects as the committee may think necessary. 

Section 50. All questions to be used in the examination of 
teachers shall be prepared by the examining committee, and when 
they have been approved by the State Superintendent of Public 
Education they shall be sent to the Parish Superintendent of the 
various parishes, who shall conduct the examinations, collect the 
fees hereinafter provided for, and send fees and answer papers 
to the State Superintendent of Public Education. The Examin- 
ing Committee shall grade all papers, and issue certificates to 
those who shall make the average pass mark fixed by the State 
Board of Education. Certificates shall be signed by the Chair- 
man of the examining committee and the State Superintendent 
of Public Education, they shall be valid for the periods named 
above in all of the points of the State. 

Section 51. Applicants for the approval of their diplomas 
or for teachers' certificates shall pay the following fees: Grad- 
uates of Colleges and State Normal Schools located in other 
States shall pay a fee of five dollars" for approval of their diplo- 
mas; applicants for special high school certificates and first 
grade certificates shall pay a fee of two dollars; applicants for 
second grade certificates shall pay a fee of one dollar and fifty 
cents ; and applicants for third grade certificates shall pay a fee 
of one dollar. 

Section 52. The State Superintendent shall deposit all fees 
in an account entitled " Examination Fees " and he sliall 
check upon this account for the salaries and office expenses of 
the examiners, keeping receipted vouchers for all moneys so 
drawn, and no other funds shall be used for salaries and ex- 
penses' of the examining committee. 

Section 53. The State Board of Education shall arrange for 
as many examinations annually as may be necessary. 



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Section 54. The examining committee shall have authority 
to issue provisional certificates, upon application by the parish 
superintendents, to teachers whose services are needed before 
their papers can be graded. Teachers holding such provisional 
certificates and failing to pass the examinations shall immediately 
vacate their positions upon notice of failure to pass the exami- 
nation. 

Section 55. The State Board of Education shall have 
authority to renew first grade teachers' certificates when satis- 
factory evidence is produced attesting the worthiness and com- 
petency of the holders asking for an extension of their certificates. 
Teachers having their certificates renewed shall pay a fee of two 
dollars. 

Section 56. Teachers' certificates now valid and in force 
shall not be affected by this Act. The Parish of Orleans is ex- 
cepted from the provisions of this Act. 

Section 57. No person shall«be appointed to teach without 
a Avritten contract for the scholastic year in which the school is 
to be taught, and Avho shall not hold a certificate of a grade suf- 
ficiently high to meet the requirements of the school ; unless he or 
she holds a- certificate or diploma provided for by this Act, Avhich 
exempts him or her from examination. 

Section 58. Teachers now in position and holding cer- 
tificates shall not be affected by the provisions of this act, it be- 
ing the intention hereof to have regard to certificates to be issued 
in the future rather than those issued in the past and held by 
teachers now employed and giving satisfaction to their Boards; 
but all certificates are revocable. 

Section 59. Each teacher of any school in this State sup- 
ported wholly or in part from public money shall, before re- 
ceiving any remuneration for services rendered in said capacity, 
file a certificate with the person by whom such payments are 
authorized to be made to the effect that such teacher has faith- 
fully complied with all provisions of this Act during the entire 
period for which such payment is sought and in the manner 
specified in this Act; and no money shall be paid to any teacher 
who has not filed such a certificate. 

Section 60. Graduates of all institutions of learning author- 
ized to confer diplomas under the laws of this State shall be cred- 
ited with having passed a satisfactory examination for said teach- 



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ers' certificate in such of the required subjects as, by the president 
of said institution, may be certified to as having- been com- 
pleted in the course of study of the applicant, excepting theory 
and art of teaching, history of education, psychology, and school 
administration. 

Section 61. Teachers now holding- certificates which are in 
force and which were heretofore issued, as the result of an exam- 
ination held under the authority of laAV shall not be required to 
undergo an examination under the provisions of this Act, but 
such certificates are continued in force for their respective 
grades and for the time provided for in the law under which 
they were granted. After the promulgation of this Act no per- 
shall be appointed as a teacher in the public schools unless he or 
she holds a certificate referred to in this Act, or a diploma 
recognized herein. 

Section 62. The diplomas conferred by the Peabody Normal 
School located at Nashville, Tenn., upon graduates of that insti- 
tution, as also diplomas conferred by the State Normal School 
at Natchitoches, La. ; as also diplomas conferred upon the grad- 
uates of the City Normal School of New Orleans, La., as also 
diplomas conferred upon the graduates of the Department of 
Philosophy and Education of the Louisiana State University 
and Agricultural and Mechanical College, as also diplomas 
conferred upon the graduates of the Teachers' College of Tu- 
lane University, as also graduates completing the course in the 
Teachers' Training Department of all schools, or institutions of 
learning now authorized by special Acts of the General Assembly 
to confer diplomas under the laws of this State that will estab- 
lish a teachers' training department following a curriculum to 
be established by the State Board of Education shall entitle the 
holders thereof to a first grade certificate, valid in any town 
or parish in this State, the parish of Orleans excepted, for five 
years from the date of graduation, at the expiration of which 
time the certificates awarded to the graduates of the Peabody 
Normal School may be renewed by the State Superintendent 
of Public Education, upon satisfactory evidence of the ability, 
progress and moral character of applicants asking for such 
renewal; certificates awarded to the graduates of the State 
Normal School may in like manner, be renewed at the expira- 



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tion of five years by the Board of Administratfors of the said 
Normal School; certificates awarded to the graduates of the De- 
partment of Philosophy and Education of the Louisiana State 
University and Agricultural and Mechanical College may, in like 
manner, be renewed at the expiration of five years by the Board 
of Administrators of said institution; certificates awarded to 
graduates of the City Normal School of New Orleans in like man- 
ner, may be renewed at the expiration of five years by the Board 
of Directors by whom they were originally issued; and certifi- 
cates awarded to graduates of all other institutions having com- 
plied with the curriculum and having established a teachers' 
training department as provided in this section, may be renewed 
at the expiration of five years by the authority of said institution 
having originally issued said diploma. 

Section 63. It shall be the duty of parish superintendents 
and teachers of -the public schools of the State to keep such 
school records as shall be prescribed by the State Superin- 
tendent of Public Education, prior to receiving his or her 
monthly salary at the end of each month. Each principal of a 
school shall make to the parish superintendent a report of 
the entire number of pupils enrolled, the number of pupils in 
attendance during the month, the book used, the branches taught, 
and such other information as the parish superintendent may 
deem important. If any principal wilfully neglects or fails to do 
this, the parish superintendent shall withhold two dollars of 
the salary due. 

Section 64. The teacher shall faithfully enforce the school 
course of study and the regulations prescribed in pursu- 
ance of law; and if any teacher shall willfully refuse or neg- 
lect to comply with such requirements, the parish superintendent 
shall report the same to the parish school board. Every teacher 
shall have the power and authority to hold every pupil to a strict 
accountability in school for any disorderly conduct on the play 
grounds of the school or during intermission or recess, and to sus- 
pend from school any pupils for good cause ; provided, that such 
suspension shall be reported in writing as soon as practicable to 
the parish superintendent, whose decision sTiall be final; and 
provided further, that in the Parish of Orleans the principals of 
the schools shall suspend and report the same to the superintend- 
ent for approval or further action. 



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• SCHOOL TREASURER. 

Section 65. The superintendent of the public scliools in 
every parish (Parish of Orleans excepted) shall be and is 
hereby constituted the treasurer of all school funds appro- 
priated by the State to such parish, or raised, collected, or 
donated therein for the support of the free public school; he 
shall receipt for all such funds to the Treasurer of the State 
and to the collector of parish taxes. 

That the parish superintendents of schools made treasurers of 
school funds under the provisions of this section, shall give bond 
in such sums as may l)e required by the school board of the par- 
ish ; provided that said bond shall not be less than the greatest 
amount in the hands of the treasurer during the previous years 
at any one time, and the school board for the several parishes 
shall pay the premium of said bond. 

That the superintendent of public schools shall receive no 
compensation whatever for his services as school treasurer. 

The said treasurer shall deposit the school funds in such bank 
or banks as may be designated by the parish school board under 
the provisions of Act No. 23, of the special session of the General 
Assembly of 1907. 

Section 66. Said treasurer immediately upon the acceptance 
of his bond, shall demand of his predecessor in the office of 
treasurer of the school funds custody of all books and papers 
and of all balances of school moneys in his hands as custodian 
of the school funds of the parish. 

Section 67. The treasurer shall pay out the school funds 
entrusted to his charge only on warrants drawn by the president 
and countersigned by the secretary of the parish school board, 
and shall state against what school district it is drawn, which 
warrant shall be drawn by these officers only in virtue of appro- 
priations regularly made by the parish board; the parish board 
shall make annually an estimate of the amount of revenue for 
the year, appropriating the same as above required, and no 
warrant beyond the amount estimated shall be drawn for any 
year. 

These warrants shall .be numbered and shall specify on their 
face to whom and for what they are given, and the date of 



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the appropriation made by the school board; the treasurer 
shall pay these warrants only to the extent of the amount to the 
credit on his books and in the order in which they are presented' 
of school districts in behalf of .which the warrants shall have 
been drawn and said warrants shall be filed in his office as 
vouchers, the account kept by him as treasurer of the school 
fund, shall always be subject to examination by any one who 
chooses to examine them. 

Section 68. It shall be the duty of the various School Boards 
throughout the State, during the month of July of each year to 
adopt a budget of revenues to accrue to said school board during 
the ensuing year; said budget not to include probable revenues 
arising from a doubtful or contingent source. 

(a) Within ten days after the adoption of the budget of 
revenues, the school boards throughout the State, shall adopt 
a budget of expenditures, not to exceed (100 per cent), one 
hundred per cent of the budget of revenues ; in the parish of Or- 
leans the budget of expenditures shall not exceed (95 per cent) 
ninety-five per cent of said budget of revenues; said budget of 
expenditures shall detail the said expenditures and no item of 
indebtedness not included in said detailed estimate, shall be paid 
by the treasurer or ex-officio Treasurer of the School Board, 
under pain, he and his surety, of being personally liable for 
any item so paid, and not included in said budget of expendi- 
tures, if during the course of the succeeding year, revenues from 
any unexpected or contingent source should have been realized, 
and amended budget of revenues may be adopted and an 
amended budget appropriating said revenues in the same propor- 
tion as above, may also be adopted. The adoption of said budget 
of expenditures shall be considered as the appropriation of the 
revenues without any other formal appropriation. 

(b) In the Parish of Orleans at the end of the year after 
payment of all the indebtedness budgeted, the school board shall 
apply said surplus of (5 per cent) fiive per cent to any indebte'd- 
ness of previous years reduced to final judgments liquidating 
and fixing the amount of indebtedness, whether the judgments 
be absolute or limited to the revenues of any year. 

(c) The duties of said School Board above provided for, may 
be enforced before any court of Justice by any taxpayer, re- 



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siding in the parish or ]jy any party in interest by such appro- 
priate remedies as the law provides. 

Section 69. The Parish School Board of all parishes of the 
State, the Parish of Orleans included, shall make an enumera- 
tion of all educable children in their respective parishes before 
July 1st, 1915, and every four years thereafter; provided that 
the respective school board shall not pay in excess of three cents 
for each child so enumerated. 

SCHOOLS IN THE PARISH OF ORLEANS. 

Section 70. All the public schools of the Parish of Orleans 
and the management, property appurtenances thereof, and the 
course of study and grading thereof, including the text books 
to be used therein, shall be under the direction and control of 
the board of directors of the public schools of said parish. Said 
board shall consist of five members. 

The first board shall be elected at the regular congressional 
election in the year 1912, and shall hold office for a term of four 
years or until their successors are elected and qualify. All 
vacancies occurring on said board for an unexpired term of one 
year or less shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, and 
all other vacancies shall be filled at a special election called by 
the Governor. The members of said Board of Directors shall he 
elected from the City at large under the general election laws ui" 
the State and in the same manner as are the members of the 
several Parish Boards of Directors throughout the State. 

Section 71. Said board is hereby constituted a body cor- 
porate in law with power to sue and be sued under the name 
and style of the Board of Directors of the Public Schools — Par 
ish of Orleans, legal processes shall be served on the President 
and in his absence or inability to act on the Vice-President. 
The said board shall have the right to make such rules and by- 
laws for the government not inconsistent with this act as it may 
deem proper. Three members shall constitute a quorum for 
the transaction of business. 

The said board shall meet as soon as elected, or as soon there- 
after as practicable, and organize by electing a president and 
vice-president from among their own members, and a secretary 



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who shall not be a member of the board. The said board shall 
at its first meeting, or as soon thereafter as practicable, elect a 
competent and experienced educator to be designated as super- 
intendent whose duty shall be hereinafter described, he shall hold 
office for a term of four years, commencing July 13th, 1913, at 
the close of the term of the present superintendent subject to 
removal by the board for incompetence, neglect of duty or mal- 
feasance of which after an impartial hearing by the board he shall 
have been deemed guilty. The said board shall also elect as 
many assistant superintendents, who shall have the same quali- 
fications as the superintendent, as said board may deem necessary 
to properly conduct the public schools of said parish, which num- 
ber of assistant superintendents may be increased or diminished 
at the pleasure of the Board. The Board may give to the assist- 
ant superintendents such title or designation as it may deem 
wise or advisable. 

The said board shall also elect an attendance officer, and em- 
ploy such other officers, clerks and assistants as may be necessary 
to properly conduct the public schools of the parish. In addition 
to the duties of his office, which may be fully prescribed by the 
board, the secretary shall make a quarterly report to the State 
Superintendent of Education of the cost of maintaining the City 
schools, and shall keep the accounts of said board in such manner 
as to be in strict accordance with such budget as it may adopt, 
certifying to said board at each monthly meeting the expenses 
of said board for each current month. Said board shall have con- 
trol of all buildings, records, papers, furniture and property of 
any kind pertaining to the administration of the schools, and 
shall have management of all the public schools within the limits 
of the Parish of Orleans." The said Board shall also have power to 
pledge its revenues for 'the year then current, whether received 
from the State, Parish, Board of Liquidation of City Debt, or 
otherwise, for the purpose of promptly paying its obligations 
or for such' other purposes as to said board may seem proper. 

Section 72. All the provisions of this Act shall be and are 
applicable to the Parish of Orleans, to the schools situated there- 
in, and to the board of directors of said parish unless the said 
Parish of Orleans is especially excepted from the application of 



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such provisions, and unless such provisions are in conflict, or are 
incompatibhi M^ith, or are contrary to the provisions of this 
Act beginning with Section 70 hereof. In addition to the powers, 
duties and rights hereinbefore granted to and imposed upon 
parish boards, the powers, duties and rights of said Board of 
Directors of the Public Schools of the Parish of Orleans shall be 
as follows : 

First — it shall adjust and fix equitably the salaries of teachers 
and janitors, also of the superintendent, secretary, attendance 
officer, employees, and of such assistant superintendents as it 
may deem necessary for the efficient supervision and conduct of 
the schools. 

Second — It shall limit the annual expenses of maintaining the 
schools to the annual revenue; the expense of any one month 
shall not exceed the one-ninth part of the whole amount provided 
for the schools for the then current year. 

. Third — It sliall prescribe rules for subjecting teachers or can- 
didates for teach'erships in the grades of the elementary schools 
to a careful competive examination on all branches they are 
expected to teach, and no such person shall be elected to a 
position as teacher without a favorable report on his moral or 
mental qualifications by an organized committee of examiners 
appointed by the board. 

Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to vacate the office 
of any teacher for which he or she shall have been appointed 
under existing laws, now as requiring persons now teaching in 
the public schools of the Parish of Orleans, to qualify in accord- 
ance with this Act. 

All teachers now employed in said public schools shall be re- 
garded as permanent employees of said Board of Directors of the 
Pubic Schools' of the Parish of Orleans, and said teachings shall 
not be removed from office, except on written charges of immor- 
ality, neglect of duty, incompetency, malfeasance or nonfeasance 
of which he has been found guilty by the Board after such in- 
vestigation and report as may be ordered or provided for by 
rules and regulations to be adopted by the said board, provided, 
that the marriage of a female teacher at any time shall ipso facto 
vacate her position. 



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All teachers hereafter appointed iu said schools shall be ap- 
pointed annually for the first three years, after which time the 
appointment shall be permanent upon a favorable recommenda- 
tion by the Superintendent. 

Fourth — It shall elect all teachers for the grades in elementa- 
ry schools from among the candidates holding certificates in the 
order of their merit as shown by the averages attained at the 
regular competitive examinations, provided for under paragraphs 
three and nine of this section. 

Fifth — All certificates shall be good for five years and shall be 
graded by the said committee of examiners hereinabove provided 
for, provided, teachers in service shall not be required to stand 
future examinations. 

Sixth — It shall hold regular monthly meetings on a day to be 
fixed by it. 

Seventh — It shall declare vacant the position of any of its 
members who shall have failed to perform the duties assigned to 
him, or wlio sliall have absented himself from two successive 
monthly meetings of the board without leave, or shall have been 
guilty of any breach of decorum or of any other act inconsistent 
with the dignity of a school director j and it shall report each' 
vacancy to the Governor. 

Eighth — It may maintain evening or night schools for the in- 
struction of such persons as are prevented by their daily voca- 
tion from receiving instruction during the day. 

Ninth — It may maintain one or more normal schools for pro- 
fessional training and improvement of candidates for teacher- 
ships including the course of instruction and training, lectures 
in the natural sciences, and on the method of teaching and discip- 
lining children, and the practical exercises of nonteaching stu- 
dents in model classes organized for that purpose by the faculty 
of the institution. To graduates of these normal schools, also to 
proficient students in the city high schools, the board may, in its 
discretion, award diplomas showing the grade attained. Gradu- 
ates of these normal schools may be deemed preferred candidates 
for vacant positions in the parish public schools. Diplomas 
awarded to graduates of these normal schools shall, be deemed 
equivalent to teaching certificates of .the highest grade for public 



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schools ; provided that the rank of said graduate of these normal 
schools in the list of candidates eligihlc for teacherships in the 
grades of the elementary schools shall be based on the average of 
all the grades in the various subjects in their course of study in 
said normal schools. 

Tenth — The board of directors shall appropriate annually not 
less than the sum of two thousand dollars, or as much thereof as 
may be needed for the purchase of school books to be used by 
pupils in the public schools of the parish of Orleans, which said 
books shall be distributed as the said board of directors may pro- 
vide and shall be used by children to whom distributed under 
such conditions, restrictions, rules and regulations as the board 
may prescribe. 

Eleventh— The said board of directors shall make an enumer- 
ation of all educable children in, the Parish of Orleans before 
July 1st, 1915, and every four years thereafter. 

Section 73. No school director of the Parish of Orleans shall 
receive any compensation for his services as such director. 

Section 74. The Parish Superintendent of Public Schools 
of the Parish of Orleans shall aid the directors in organizing the 
schools and in improving the methods of instruction therein, in 
examining candidates for teacherships, and in conducting 
periodical examination of pupils for promotion through the res- 
pective grades of the schools, and in maintaining general uni- 
formity and discipline in the management of all schools. He 
shall make monthly reports on the condition and needs of the 
schools to his board of directors at their regular meetings. For 
the information of the common council, the school directors, and 
the public generally, he shall, on or before the tenth day of 
December of each year, publish a printed report, in book form, 
showing the condition and progress, and possible improvements 
to be made in the public schools in the Parish, the amount and 
condition of the school funds, how the revenues have been dis- 
tributed during the past year, the amount collected and dis- 
bursed for common school purposes from the general current 
school fund of the State, from local taxation or appropriation, 
and from all other sources of revenue, and how the same was 
expended for buildings, repairs, salaries, furniture, and ap- 



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paratus, and all other items of expenditure. The report will 
show, also, the number of pupils enrolled, male, female, white 
and colored, the number of and location of school houses, the 
number of teachers employed in the various grades, in the nor- 
mal, high, grammar, primary, and kindergarten schools, and 
the daily average attendance ol pupils during tho annual ses- 
sion and the average expenses per capita of their instruction ; it 
shall contain, also, an account of examinations held for teacher- 
ships, the number of certificates of each grade awarded, the names 
of applicants who received them, and generally all other items of 
information which should be contained in a report upon the an- 
nual operation of the school system of a large city. Copies of 
this report shall be forwarded, one each, to the Governor and 
members of the State Board of Education, the State Superintend- 
ent of Education, the members of the Common Council of the 
City of New Orleans, and to other officials and persons interested 
in the welfare and progress of the Parish Schools. He shall be 
entitled to participate in the deliberations and debates of said 
board but shall have no vote. Whenever notified to be present, 
he shall attend meetings of the State Board of Education. 

Section 75. The Treasurer of the City of New Orleans shall 
ex-officio be the Treasurer of said board and shall receive all 
funds apportioned by the State to such city, or received or 
collected for the support of the free public schools from any 
and all sources. He shall give bond, with good and solvent 
security in the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in 
favor of the said board and its successors in office, to be ac- 
cepted and approved by said board and recorded in the mort- 
gage office of the Parish, and which bond shall then be filed 
and kept on record in the office of the said board. The filing of 
said bond, and taking and filing the usual oath of office before 
any officer authorized to administer same, shall qualify the Treas- 
urer to act. 

Section 76. Said Treasurer shall hold his office during his 
term of office as City Treasurer, unless sooner removed after due 
trial and hearing by the said board, for neglect of duty or mal- 
feasance in office; and in case of removal by the board, it shall 
elect a treasurer who shall not be a member. He shall receive the 
sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum for the trouble and 



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expenses which may be incurred by him in tlie discharge of the 
duties imposed under this act, payable monthly. He shall keep 
his office open at all such, times as may be prescribed by said board 
for tlie payment of pay rolls or checks in favor of teachers and 
other employees of the board. 

Section 77. It shall f)e the duty of the Common Council of 
the City of New Orleans, in making up their budget of annual 
expenses, to include therein the amount necessary to meet the 
expenses of the schools, as shown by the statement of the actual 
attendance, and the cost of instruction with such additional al- 
lowance for probable increased attendance and contingent ex- 
penses as may seem just and reasonable to the Oity Council, and 
keep in good repair all school houses and school grounds belong- 
ing to the City of New" Orleans and in charge of the said board 
of directors. That hereafter whenever the City of New Orleans 
contemplates the erection of a new school building, the said 
Board of Directors of the Public Schools of the Parish of Or- 
leans, shall have the right to designate the name and location of 
said school. 

ACT No. 11 OF 1912 

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate 
concurring, that the Registrar of the Land Office and the Attor- 
ney General be, and they are hereby directed to look into the 
matter of sixteenth section lands and school indemnity lands set 
aside for the benefit of the public schools of the State of Louis- 
iana, and to prepare a statement which will show all sixteenth 
sections and indemnity lands that were originally set aside for 
the benefit of the public schools in the various parishes, what 
lands have been sold, and what was done with the funds realized 
from the sale of such lands, and what sixteenth sections and 
school indemnity lands are still owned by the various parishes 
for the benefit of the public schools, and where located. Where 
funds realized from the sale of sixteenth sections and school 
indemnity lauds have not been properly credited on the State 
Auditor's books for the benefit of the parishes entitled to them, 
the Attorney General shall take the necessary action to require 
the State Auditor to make the proper corrections. • 



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ACT No. 34 OF 1912 

Section 1. Any person, who in any manner, foi exhibitioE oi 
display, shall after this act takes effect, place or cause to be 
placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing or any 
advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, color or 
ensign of the United States or State flag of this State, or ensign, 
or shall expose or cause to be exposed to public view, any such 
flag, standard, color or ensign upon which after this act takes ef- 
fect, shall have been printed, painted, or otherwise placed, or 
to which shall be attached, appended, affixed, or annexed, any 
word, figure, mark, picture design, or drawing, or any advertise- 
ment of any nature, or who shall, after the first day of Septem- 
ber, 1912, expose to public view, manufacture, sell, expose for 
sale, give away, or have in possession for sale, or to give away, or 
for use for any purpose any article, or substance, being an article 
of merchandise, or a receptacle of merchandise or article or thing 
for carrying or transporting merchandise, upon which after this 
act takes effect, shall have been printed, painted, attached or 
otherwise placed, a representation of any such flag, standard, 
color, or ensign to advertse, call attention to ,decorate, mark or 
distinguish the article or substance, on which so placed, or who 
shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile, or defy, trample upon, or 
east contempt, either by words or act, upon any such flag, stand- 
ard, color, or ensign, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and on conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one 
hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty 
days, or both in the discretion of the court. The words flag, 
standard, color, or ensign, as used in this subdivision or section 
shall include any flag, standard, color, or ensign, or any picture 
or representation, of either thereof, made of any substance, or 
represented on any substance, and of any size, evidently pur- 
porting to be, either of, said flag, standard, color, or ensign, of 
the United States of America, or a picture or a representation, 
of either thereof, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars, 
and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or by which 
the person seeing the same, without deliberation may believe 
the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign, of 
the United States of America. 



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The possession after this act takes effect, by any person, other 
than a public officer, as snch, of any such flag, standard, color 
or ensign, on which shall be anything made unlawful at any 
time by this section, or of any article or substance or thing 
on which shall be anything made unlawful at any time by this 
section, shall be presumptive evidence that the same is in violation 
of the section, and was made, done or created after this act 
takes effect, and that such flag, standard, color, ensign, or article, 
substance, or thing, did not exist when this act takes effect. 

Section 2. When by any statute of this state, the use of the 
flag of the United States of America, or of any picture or rep- 
resentation of such flag, is made penal or unlawful, this act 
shall not apply to any act permitted by the statutes of the United 
States of America or b}^ the United States army and navy regu- 
lations nor shall it be construed to apply to any newspaper, 
periodical, book, pamphlet, circular, certificate, diploma, war- 
rant or commission of appointment to office, ornamental picture, 
article of jewelry, or stationery for use in correspondence, on 
any of which shall be printed, painted or placed, said flag, dis- 
connected from any advertisement. 

ACT No. 39 OF 1912 

Section 1. The official flag of Louisiana shall be that flag 
now in general use, consisting of a solid blue field with the Coat- 
of-Arms of the State, the pelican feeding its young, in white in 
the center, with a ribbon beneath, also in white, containing in 
blue the motto of the State, "Union, Justice and Confidence," 
the whole showing as below. 

Section 2. The said State flag shall be displayed on the State 
House whenever the General Assembly is in session and on 
public buildings throughout the State on all legal holidays and 
whenever otherwise directed by the Governor or the General As- 
sembly. 

ACT No. 69 OF 1912 

Section 1. The police juries of the several parishes of the 
State, under such regulations as they may prescribe be and 
are hereby authorized to appropriate and use from parish funds 



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any sum or sums of money not exceeding altogether one thousand 
dollars per year in aid of the Farmers' Co-operative Demonstra- 
tion Work in their respective parishes jointly with the agents 
and representatives of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon 
between the several police juries and said agents and represen- 
tatives. 

ACT No. 145 OF 1912 

Section 1. The police juries of the several parishes of this 
State are empowered to acquire the o\^Tiership of a tract of land 
and when so acquired the title to the same shall rest in the 
public provided, however, in those parishes having large areas 
of different -classes of soil are empowered under this act to ac- 
quire tracts as aforesaid representative of the several classes 
of soil that predominate in the particular parish. 

Section 2. The tracts of land so acquired are to be consti- 
tuted Parish Experimental Farms and the parish is to improve 
said property so that it may be worked by the parish in accord- 
ance with plans to be suggested by the State and United States 
Agricultural Departments, provided that the police juries of the 
said parishes may utilize in the working of the same its parish 
prisoners. 

Section 3. The Parish Experimental Farms provided for 
by this act are estabislied for the purpose of demonstrating the 
possibilities of the soil in the respective parishes, and in every 
way to disseminate a scientific knowledge of agriculture, and in 
consequence the work and results so obtained on the Parish Ex- 
perimental Farms are to be open to the inspection and study 
of the public at stated times. 

Section 4. With a view of stimulating a friendly rivalry 
as to the most successful results obtained upon the said Parish 
Experimental Farms, it is further provided that a selection of 
the best results of each year's work upon said Parish Experimen- 
tal Farms may be assembled and exhibited annually at the State 
Fair in the building owned and set apart by the State as an 
Agricultural Hall at the State Fair of Louisiana. 



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Section 5. The Police Juries are empowered to make pro- 
vision in their budgets for the carrying out of this act at the 
earliest practicable time that the finances of each parish will 
permit. 

ACT No. 118 OF 1912 

Section 1. The Board of Trustees of the Southern Univer- 
sity, are hereby directed to sell all of its present property, real 
and personal save and except such personal property as will 
be useful or necessary for the purpose of the Southern Univer- 
sity, situated in the State of Louisiana, and particularly in the 
Parishes of Jefferson and Orleans, for a sum not less than 
$50,000 upon such terms and conditions as said Board of Trus- 
tees may determine ; provided, that the sale contemplated by this 
section shall be first submitted to the Governor of the State for 
his approval, in writing, which written approval shall be attach- 
ed to the Act or Acts of Sale as authority to the notary to pass 
the deed. The proceeds of said sale shall be held by the Board 
of Trustees of the said University to be invested in the manner 
and in such property as hereinafter provided. 

Section 2. The said Board of Trustees, within a reasonable 
time after the passage of this Act, shall acquire a suitable site 
for said Southern University, in the rural section of the State^ 
and upon said site erect appropriate buildings, containing such 
equipment as, in the judgment of the said Board of Trustees, 
is necessary and proper for carrying on of the said Southern 
University, under the terms of this Act, and under the terms 
of Act No. 87 of 1880, that said Board of Trustees shall, prioi; 
to executing the deed of sale for the property herein contem- 
plated to be purchased, submit the terms and conditions of 
said purchase and the location of said property, to the Governor 
of the State, for his approval, and his written approval of the 
location and the terms and conditions of the purchase, shall be 
the authority to the said Board of Trustees, to execute the deed 
of purchase. The sessions shall continue in said university and 
on said farm until the new site of the university is provided for 
under the provisions of this act. 

Section 3. In addition to carrying out the University pur- 
poses set forth in Section 7 of Act No. 87, of 1880, said 



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Board of Trustees sliall have power and it shall be their duty 
to establish a department of said Southern University, which 
shall be known as "The Industrial and Agricultural Normal 
School;" that said "Industrial and Agricultural Normal 
School" shall be equipped in such manner and provided with 
such teachers, so as to instruct persons of color, male and female, 
to be teachers, so they can teach industrial and agricultural 
subjects in schools for youths of both sexes of the colored race. 

Section 4. It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees 
of the Southern University, as soon as practicable after the 
establishment of the University upon the new site contemplated 
in this Act, to establish a department of the University, which 
\haJl be known as "The Model Industrial and Agricultural 
School," and at least eight grades shall be created in said school, 
in which to assign pupils, and said grades and the course of 
teaching to be taught therein, shall be set forth in proper regu- 
lations to be formulated by the said Board of Trustees, provided 
that all teachers in the said "Model Industrial and Agricultural 
School" shall be persons of the colored race. 

■ Section 5. The said Board of Trustees shall be empowered 
1o enact general rules and by-laws for the said University in all 
its departments, w'hether said departments appertain to indus- 
trial and agricultural subjects or to the arts and letters, and 
to elect a President of the Faculty, the professors and teachers 
and determine their compensation; also all officers and em- 
ployees that may be necessary, and prescribe their duties and 
compensation ; providing that the President of the Faculty, the 
professors, teachers and all other employees except only the Board 
of Trustees, themselves, shall be persons of the colored race. AU 
members of the Board of Trustees shall be of the white race, 
and the Board shall consist of one member from each of the 
Congressional Districts, appointed for a term of four years, by 
the Governor of the State, and the State Superintendent of 
Public Education and the Governor, the Governor to be Chair- 
man of the Board. 



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ACT No. 125 OF 1912 

Section 1. The Attorney General of the State of Louisi- 
ana in the Parish of Orleans and the District Attorney of the 
several Judicial Districts of the State of Louisiana, other than 
the Parish of Orleans, shall ex-officio and without extra com- 
pensation, general or special, be the regular attorneys and coun- 
cil for the Police Juries and School Boards within the Par- 
ish of Orleans and within their respective Districts and of 
every State Board or Commission domiciled therein, including 
Levee Boards, Hospital and Asylum Boards, educational Boards 
and Dock Boards, and all State Boards, or Commissions, the 
members of which, in whole or in part, are elected by the peo- 
ple, or appointed by the Governor or other prescribed authori- 
ty, except all State Boards and Commissions domiciled at the 
City of Baton Rouge, Parish of East Baton Rouge, and all 
Boards in charge or in control of State institutions ; and it shall 
be unlawful for any Police Jury, School Board, or State Board 
or commission to retain or employ for any compensation whatever 
any attorney or counsel to represent it generally, or except as 
hereinaft(>r provided, to retain or employ any special attorney 
or counsel for any compensation whatever to represent it in any 
special matter, or pay any compensation for any legal services 
whatever; Provided that the Orleans Levee Board shall select 
its own attorney who shall also be the attorney for the Board of 
Commisioners of the port of New. Orleans at a salary of Twenty- 
five Hundred Dollars per annum, to be paid jointly by the Or- 
leans Levee Board and the Board of Commissioners of the Port 
of New Orleans at the rate of Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dol- 
lars yearly each. Provided further that the provisions of this 
Act shall not apply to the Board of Assessors of the Parish of 
Orleans, the salary of whose attorney is paid by the City of New 
Orleans, and the Board of School Directors of the Parish of Or- 
leans, for which board the city attorney of the City of New Or- 
leans is ex-officio Attorney. 

Section 2. In the event it should be necessary to protect the 
public interest for any State Board or Commission to retain or 
employ any special attorney or counsel to represent it in any 
speciii' +ter for which services any compensation is to be paid 



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by it, it shall have the power and authority to retain or employ 
suoh special attorney or counsel solely on the joint written ap- 
proval of the Governor and the Attorney General of the State 
and • to pay only such compensation as the Governor and the 
Attorney General may designate in said written approval, the 
said approval to be given in their discretion only upon the ap- 
application of such Board or Commission by a resolution thereof 
setting forth fully reasons for the proposed retention or employ- 
ment of such special attorney or counsel and the amount of the 
proposed compensation, provided the Governor and Attorney 
General shall not ratify or approve any action of such Board 
in employing any special attorney or counsel or paying any 
compensation for special services rendered, unless all formalities 
as provided by this act as to resolutions, etc., have been complied 
with. 

Section 3. No Police Jury or Parish School Board shall re- 
tain or employ any special attorney or counsel to represent it in 
any special matter or pay any compensation for any legal ser- 
vices whatever unless a real necessity exists therefor made to 
appear by a resolution thereof, stating fully the reasons for such 
action and the compensation to be paid, which resolution shall be 
spread upon the minutes of such body and published in the 
official journal of the Parish. 

Section 4. The District Attorneys who shall refuse or will- 
fully fail to perform the duties required of them by this act or 
wilfully fail to render faithful and efficient services in such re- 
gard shall be deemed guilty of malfeasance and gross misconduct 
and removal from office in the manner prescribed by law, and 
the members of Police Juries, Parish School Boards, and State 
Boards or Commissions aforesaid, who shall violate any of the 
provisions of this act, and any attorney or counselor who shall 
knowingly accept such prohibited employment or compensation 
shall be deemed guilty as principals of a misdemeanor and on 
conviction sentenced to pay a fine of not less than twenty-five 
nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars and imprisoned for 
not less than ten nor more than ninety days and in addition 
thereto the members of such Boards or Commissions shall be 
deemed guilty of malfeasance and gross misconduct and re- 



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moved from office in the manner prescribed by law if elected by 
the people, and by the Governor or other prescribed authority, 
if appointed. 

Section 5. The Governor may in his discretion require and 
direct the Attorney General to render any Police Jury, Parish 
School Board, or State Board any special serivces in any matter 
and when deemed necessary in the case of a State Board or Com- 
mission to assume full charge and control of all legal proceedings 
relating to such matter. 

ACT No. 151 OF 1912 

Section 1. Act No. 168 of the Acts of the General Assem- 
bly of the State of Louisiana for the year 1894, be amended and 
re-enacted so as to read as follows: 

That whenever a sixteenth section donated to the State of Lou- 
isiana by an act of Congress for school purposes is located in a 
township not habitable by reason of said township being swamp 
or sea marsh, the Board of School Directors may, upon the 
petition of the land owners owning in area more than one-half 
of the land in the township, order the sale of such sixteenth 
section by resolution or motion passed by a majority of the 
members of such board present and voting. 

Section 2. When a sale of a sixteenth section is ordered 
as authorized in the first section of this act, the same shall be 
made by the Parish Treasurer of the Parish in which the six- 
teenth section is located, in person or by the sheriff or any auc- 
tioneer of the parish, designated by him. Said sale, however, 
shall be made only after the same has been advertised for 
thirty days in a newspaper published in the parish where the 
property is located; and where no newspaper is published in the 
parish, then, by posting a written or printed notice for thirty 
days at or near the front door of the courthouse in the parish 
where the property is situated and at two other public places in 
such parish. On the day named in the advertisement, the said 
section shall be sold as a whole or in lots of not less than forty 
acres, at the principal front door of the courthouse of the parish 
in which the property is situated, between the hours of Eleven 
O'clock A. M. and Four 'Clock P. M., with appraisement, to 



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the last and highest bidder and without a prior survey of the 
property and upon the following terms and conditions: One- 
tenth (1-10) or more in cash at the option of the purchaser, 
and the remainder, if any, in nine (9) equal annual install- 
ments, bearing eight (8 per cent) per cent interest per annum 
from date interest payable annually and the deeds shall con- 
tain the usual security clauses and a stipulation to pay ten (10) 
per cent attorney's fees in the event the services of an attorney 
are secured for the purpose of collecting same. 

Section 3. That the deed of the Parish Treasurer shall be 
full and complete evidence of the sale and shall convey a good 
and valid title to the property sold and have all the force and 
effect of a notarial act; and all moneys or notes received under 
and by virtue of such sale shall be disposed of b}^ him in the 
manner now required by law. 

ACT No. 42 OF 1912 

Section 1. That Section 1 of the Act 109, of 1906, approved 
July 7, 1906, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows : 

That there is now and shall hereafter be levied, solely for the 
support of the public schools, on all inheritances, legacies and 
other donations mortis causa to or in favor of the direct de- 
scendants or ascendants or surviving wife or husband of the 
decedent, a tax of two per centum, and on all such inheritances 
or dispositions to or in favor of the collateral relatives of 
the deceased, or strangers, a tax of five per centum on the amount 
or the actual cash value thereof at the time of the death of the 
decedent. 

Section 2. That Section 2 of said Act 109 of 1906, approved 
July 7, 1906, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as 
follows : 

The said tax shall not be imposed in the following cases : 

(a) On any inheritance, legacy, or other donation mortis 
causa to or in favor of any ascendant or descendant or sur- 
viving wife or husband of the decedent below ten thousand dol- 
lars in amount or value. 

(b) On any legacy or other donation mortis causa to or in 
favor of any educational, religious or charitable institutions. 



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(c) Wlien the property inherited, bequeathed or donated 
shall have borne its just proportion of taxes prior to the time of 
such donation, bequest or inheritance. 

ACT JSo. 73 OF 1912 

Section 1. There shall be collected and preserved, all mus- 
ter rolls, records, and other facts and materials showing the 
officers and enlisted men of the several companies, battalions, 
regiments and other organizations from Louisiana in the Mili- 
tary, Marine or Naval Service of the Confederate States of 
America, and the name of all Louisianians of whatever rank 
in the military, marine or naval service of the Confederate- 
States, whether regulars, volunteers, conscripts, militia, re- 
serves, home guards or local troops. 

Section 2. The Governor be and is hereby authorized and in- 
structed to appoint a Confederate Veteran from a list of names 
to be submitted by the Louisiana Division of the United Confed- 
erate Veterans through the Commander thereof, to be known as 
the Commissioner of Louisiana Military Records, whose duty it 
shall be forthwith to collect and preserve such muster rolls, 
records, facts and other materials as herein prescribed, and to 
perform such other duties as may be imposed upon him by law. 
He shall by advertisement, visitation, correspondence, search and 
by every other means at his command, seek to obtain the muster 
rolls, records or other materials above referred to, and shall re- 
ceive them either by gift or loan to the State. He shall compile 
and properly index the same in a manner that will enable any 
one to readily and plainly and without difficulty, find the name 
command and military record of men who served from the State 
of Louisiana in the Confederate Army using a card or other index 
system as may be most available and convenient, and is author- 
ized to secure the publication of as many copies in book form as 
may be necessary. The publication when completed shall be 
under the control of the Governor, who in his discretion shall 
direct said Commissioner to furnish a copy free of cost, to each 
of the colleges, seminaries, schools and public libraries, universi- 
ties and colleges of other Southern States and to exchange the 
same for similar publications from any other States, and to sell 
copies to the public at a price not less than the cost of publication. 



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Section 3. Said Commissioner shall prepare a short history, 
showing the organization of every company, battalion, regiment 
or other organization that was in the militar}^ marine or naval 
service of Louisiana, or was contributed by Louisiana to the Mil- 
itary, marine or naval service of the Confederate States, whether 
regulars, volunteers, conscripts, home guards or local troops, 
militia or reserves, and stating as far as practicable the service 
rendered and the battles, combats or skirmishes in which they 
were engaged. 

That he shall also, as far as practicable, collect pictures, por- 
traits and photographs of the officers and soldiers who served in 
the Civil War, and of the battles which occurred during said 
war, as well as of military- scenes and points of interest in, con- 
nection therewith. • ^ 

That he shall ascertain and report what parishes, cities or 
towns have caused the rolls of the organizations contributed b;^ 
Louisiana, to be put on record, and where this has not been done, 
shall encourage its accomplishment; and 

That he shall take a list and report of all battles, combats 
and actions which took place in Louisiana during the Civil War, 
and shall mark and annotate upon a map of Louisiana, so as 
to show the parishes in w^hich they fought. 

Section 4. Said Commissioner of Louisiana Military Rec- 
ords shall commence his duties immediately upon his appoint- 
ment, that he shall, hold office until his successor is appointed 
and qualified; and that he shall report semi-annually to the 
Governor, showing the progress made by him. 

That the Governor shall have the power to remove said Com- 
missioner for any just and reasonable cause, and to appoint 
another in his stead at any time, such new appointment to be 
on the recommendation as above provided for in Section 2 of 
this Act. 

That upon the assembling of the General Assembly to be 
elected in April, 1916, the officer of the Commissioner of Louis- 
iana Military Records shall cease and this Act cease to be in 
force, unless otherwise provided by the General Assembly. 

Section 5. The said Commissioner of Louisiana Military 
Records is hereby* authorized to employ an assistant as Chief 



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Clerk and such additional clerical assistance as he may need and 
can be paid for out of the appropriation of this Act. 

Section 6. The sum of $3,500.00 be and is hereby appropri- 
ated out of any general fund money in the State Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, for immediate use in paying expenses 
of copying official military rolls in the war department, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

That the sum of $3,500.00 payable out of the general fund 
of 1912 and $3,500.00 payable out of the general fund of 1913 
for the annual salary of the Commissioner of Louisiana Military 
Records and the further sum of $3,000.00 payable out of the gen- 
eral fund of 1912, and $3,000.00 payable out of the gen- 
eral fund of 1913 for clerical assistance, rent, travelling ex- 
penses, stationery, and other office expenses, be and the same 
is hereby appropriated. That the appropriation herein made 
shall be payable on the warrant of the Commissioner of Louisiana 
Military Records. 

ACT No. 162 OF 1912 

Section 1. That Article 210 of the Constitution be amended 
so as to read as follows : 

Article 210: No person shall be eligible to any office, State, 
judicial, parochial, municipal or ward, who is not a citizen of 
this State and a duly qualified elector of the State, judicial dis- 
trict, parish, municipality or w'ard, wherein the functions of 
said office are to be performed; Provided, that resident women 
over the age of twenty-five years shall be eligible to hold any 
office connected with the public educational system of the State, 
or of any ward, parish, or municipality in the State, and to hold 
any office in the State connected wth institutions of charity or 
correction. And whenever any officer, State, judicial, parochial, 
municipal or ward, may change his residence from this State, or 
from the district, parish, municipalit}^ or ward in which he holds 
such office, the same shall thereby be vacated, any declaration of 
retention of domicile to the contrary notwithstanding. 

Section 2. That this proposed amendment be submitted to 
the electors of the State of Louisiana for their approval or re- 
jection, as required by Article 321 of the (Constitution of the 



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State of Louisiana and the general election laws of the State, 
at the next Congressional election to be held in this State in 
November, 1912. 

Section 3. That on the official ballots to be used at said elec- 
tion shall be placed the words ' ' For the proposed amendment to 
Article 210 of the Constitution relative to women," and the 
words "Against the proposed amendment to Article 210 of the 
Constitution relative to women," and each elector shall indicate, 
as provided in the general election laws of the State whether iie 
votes for or against said amendment. 

ACT No. 123 OF 1912 

Section 1. That the Register of the State Land Office be and 
is hereby authorized, when it is made to appear from the records 
of his office and such other evidence as he may require, that a 
township has not received from the State the school indemnity 
lands, to which it is entitled, to issue a warrant in the name of 
the President of the School Board of the Parish in which the 
said township is located for the number of acres due the said 
township. 

Section 2. The Avarrants issued under Section One of the 
provisions of this act shall be assignable by the School Board for 
not less than $5.00 per acre, and that the said warrants shall 
be locatable upon any vacant State lands subject to entry. 

Section 3. On the location of the warrants authorized by 
this Act a patent shall issue, as required by existing law, in the 
name of the locator for the amount of land specified in such 
warrant. 

ACT No. 232 OF 1912 

Section 1. That Section 1 of Act 222 of the General Assem- 
bly of the State of Louisiana of the year 1910 be amended and 
re-enacted so as to read as follows : 

Section 1. From and after October 1, 1910, every parent, 
guardian or other person, residing within the boundaries of the 
Parish of Orleans, having control or charge of any child or chil- 
dren between the ages of eight (8) and fourteen (14) years, 
inclusive, shall send such child or children to a public, private. 



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denominational, or parochial day school each school year, during 
the time in which the public schools of the Parish of Orleans 
shall be in session, under such penalty for non-compliance here- 
with as is hereinafter provided. Said child or childre;a may be 
excused from such attendance by the Attendance or Truant Of- 
ficers of the Parish, upon the presentation of satisfactory evi- 
dence that the bodily or mental condition of the child or children 
is such as to prevent or render inadvisable attendance at school 
or application to study ; or that such child or children are being 
instructed at home in the common school branches, or that the 
child or children have completed the prescribed elementary school 
course of study, or if the public school facilities within twenty 
city blocks of the home of the child or children are not adequate 
to accommodate such child or children, provided, that no excuse 
from attendance shall be valid for more than three months except 
where the child has completed the elementary course, or if the 
public school facilities within twenty city blocks of the home of 
the child or children are not adequate to accommodate such child 
or clnldren. Every parent, uuardian, or person in the Parish of 
Orleans having charge or control of a child between the ages of 
14 and 16 years who is not regularly and lawfully engaged for 
at least six hours each day in some useful employment or service, 
shall cause said child to attend regularly some day school accord- 
ing to the provisions of this section. 

ACT No. 14 OF 1912 

Section 1. The Ursuline Nuns, a religious institution for tlie 
education of young ladies, situated in the Parish of Orleans, and 
duly recognized as a body corporate, and entitled to the enjoy- 
ment and exercise of all the rights, duties and privileges apper- 
taining to civil corporations, by repeated acts of the General 
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, shall have the power and 
is hereby authorized to graduate students and to confer such 
literary honors and degrees and to grant such diplomas as are 
conferred and granted by any colleges, universities or seminaries 
of learning in the United -States and EurCpe, to such graduates 
of said institution, or other persons, as may be provided for under 
such rules and regulations, and over the signatures of such per- 
son or persons as said corporation may adopt. 



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ACT Np. 136 OF 1912 

Section 1. "Loyola University," a corporation organized 
under the laws of this State and domiciled in the City of New 
Orleans, be and is hereby authorized and empowered to confer 
upon its students, or upon any person deemed by it worthy of 
such distinction, degrees in the arts and sciences and all the 
learned professions, such as are granted by other universities in 
the United States, and to give diplomas or certificates thereof. 

Provided that the curriculum or course of study in the 
learned professions shall equal that maintained by other standard 
Universities. 

Section 2. Said degrees and diplomas or certificates shall 
be recognized by the courts and all officials of this State, as en- 
titling the graduates receiving said degrees and holding said 
diplomas or certificates, to the same rights, immunities and privi- 
leges in the State of Louisiana as the graduates of any other imi- 
versity or institution of learning whatsoever. 

ACT No. 185 OF 1912 

Section 1. That the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,- 
000), for the year ending June 30th, 1913, and Fifty Thousand 
Dollars ($50,000) for the year ending June 30th, 1914, be and 
the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys not otherwise 
appropriated, to be used for the aid and support of the State 
Approved High Schools of Louisiana. 

Section 2. In the event there are no funds available with 
which to pay this appropriation, the State Board of Liquidation 
is hereby authorized and directed to borrow the same from the 
fiscal agents of this State. 

ACT No. 186 OF 1912 

Section 1. That the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,- 
000) for the year ending June 30th, 1913, and Fifty Thousand 
Dollars ($50,000) for the year ending June 30th, 1914, be and 
the same is hereby apppropriated, out of any moneys not other- 
wise appropriated, to be used for the aid and support of the De- 
partments of Agriculture and Domestic Science in the public 
schools of Louisiana. 



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Section 2. In the event there are no funds available with 
which to pay this appropriation, the State Board of Liquidation 
is hereby authorized and directed to borrow the same from the 
fiscal agents of this State. 

(Accepting and Regulating Donations, Act 158, '04.) 

Section 1. The Board of Education for the State of Louisi- 
ana; the Board of Directors of the public schools of each and 
every parish in the State, the Parish of Orleans included, shall 
have the power to accept and administer donations mortis causa 
or inter vivos for any educational or literary purpose whatso- 
ever, and it shall be lawful for any one to make such a donation 
of any description of property, and to any amount to any one or 
more of such boards. 

Sec. 2. The donor shall have the right to prescribe the 
manner in which the property shall be administered, and the 
objects to which it or any part thereof, or the revenues thereof, 
shall be applied ; provided, however, that property donated, can- 
not be made inalienable, but the donor thereof shall have the right 
to prescribe in what manner, and under what circumstances, the 
donees shall be empowered to sell the same, or any portion 
thereof, or to change any investments once made. 

Sec. 3. Said Board or Boards shall administer the property 
entrusted to them in conformity with the directions contained 
in the act of donation, and shall have all the powers needed in 
such administration, but cannot mortgage nor encumber the 
donated property, except as may be prescribed in the act of do- 
nation. The said Board or Boards shall be entitled to no re- 
muneration for their services, unless expressly granted in the 
act of donation. 

Sec. 4. The provisions of the laws of this State, relative 
to substitutions fidei commisa and trusts shall not be deemed to 
apply or affect donations made for the purposes and in the 
manner provided in this act, and all laws or parts of laws con- 
flicting with the provisions of this act be, and the same are 
hereby repealed insofar as regards the purposes of this act, but 
not otherwise. 



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(Assessor's Fee for Assessing School Taxes, S. 1, A. 213, '08.) 

The tax assessors of each parish of the State ****** 
shall receive as an annual compensation for his labors, services 
and duties four per cent (4 per cent) of the tirst fifty thousand 
dollars ($50,000.00) aggregate amount of all State, parish and 
poll taxes assessed, and two per cent (2 per cent) on any excess 
over fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) ; provided that nothing 
herein shall be so construed as to allow assessors more than two 
per cent on special school taxes, and for his services, duties or 
labors in assessing or extending on the rolls any and all leveo 
taxes the sum of one hundred dollars ($100), except where the 
parish for which the assessor is elected lies in more than one 
levee district, in which case he shall receive the sum of two per 
cent (2 per cent) on the aggregate amount of such taxes; pro- 
vided no assessor shall receive less than four hundred dollars 
($400) in any parish for each annual assessment of State, parish, 
poll and all levee taxes. That the payment of this compensation 
shall be distributed between the State, parish, school boards, 
cities and towns and other taxing district or division in propor- 
tion to the amount received by each. 

(Powers of the District Board in Expropriations, S. 1492, R. S.) 

"When land shall be required for the erection of a schoolhouse 
or for enlarging a schoolhouse lot, and the owner refuses to sell 
the same for a reasonable compensation, the District Board of 
Scliool Directors shall have the power to select and possess such 
sites embracing space sufficiently extensive to answer the pur- 
pose of schoolhousG and ground. 

(Expropriation of Property for Public Schools; For Schoolhouse Sites, 
Act 208 of 1906, amending and re-enacting Act 227 of 1902.) 

Whenever the State or any political corporation of the same 
created for the purpose of exercising any portion of the govern- 
mental powers, in the same, or the board of administrators or 
directors of any charity hospital, or any board of school directors 
thereof, or any corporation constituted under the laws of this 
State for the construction of railroads, plank roads, turnpike 
roads, or canals for navigation, or for the construction or opera- 
tion of water works or sewerage to supply the public with water 
and sewerage, (or for the piping and marketing of natural gas 



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for the purpose of supplying the public with natural gas), or for 
the purpose of transmitting intelligence by magnetic telegraph, 
cabnot agree with the owner of the land which may be wanted for 
its purchase, it shall be lawful for such State corporation, board 
of administrators, directors or persons to apply by petition to 
the district court, in which the same may be situated, or if it 
extends into two districts, to the judge of the district court in 
which the owner resides, and if the owner does not reside in 
either district, to either of the district .courts, describing the land 
necessary for the purposes, with a plan of the same, and a state- 
ment of the improvement thereon, if any, and the name of the 
owner thereof, if known at present in the State, with a prayer 
that the land be adjudged to such State, corporation, board of 
administrators or directors upon payment to the owner of all 
such damages as he may sustain in consequence of the expropria- 
tion of said land for such public works; all claims for lands or 
damages to the owner caused by its taking or expropriation for 
such public work shall be barred by two (2) years prescrip- 
tion which shall commence to run from the date at which the 
land was actually occupied and used for the construction of 
the works. 

All the existing laws for the forms and processes of expro- 
priation of property shall be applicable to the said act and sec- 
tion thus amended and re-enacted. 

(Relative to the Value of the Grounds, S. 1493, R. S.) 

Should such landholder deem the sum assessed too small, he 
shall have the right to institute suit before any proper judicial 
tribunal for his claim ; but the title shall pass from him to the 
school corporation. 

(Pupils' Eyes to Be Tested, A. 292, '08.) 

Section 1. The State Board of Health and Superintendent 
of Education shall prepare or cause to be prepared, suitable test 
cards, blanks and record books, and all other necessary appliances 
to be used in testing the sight and hearing of pupils in the public 
schools of the State, together with the necessary instructions for 
the use of same; and the Superintendent of Education shall 
furnish said test cards, record books, blanks and appliances to- 



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getlier with the necessary instmetions for the use to every pub- 
lic school in the State. 

Sec. 2. The Superintendent, Principal or Teacher in every 
school, during the month of September or during the first month 
of school, or within thirty days after the admission of any pu- 
pils entering the school late in the session, shall in each year, 
test the sight and hearing of each and all pupils under his or 
her charge, and shall keep a record of such examination ac- 
cording to the instructions furnished, and shall notify in writing 
the parent, tutor, tutrix or guardian of everj^ pupil who shall 
be found to have any defect of sight or hearing or any disease 
of eyes or ears of such defect; and shall make a written report 
of all such examinations to the State Superintendent of Educa- 
tion. 

(Forfeited Bonds, S. 1044, R. S.) 

The several district attorneys throughout the State shall be 
entitled to demand and receive one-fifth of all sums, fir^t deduct- 
ing the percentage allowed by law to the sheriff for collecting 
and paying over the same, which may be collected on forfeited 
bonds in criminal prosecutions and misdemeanors in any court 
of justice. 

(Quarterly Statements to Be Furnished Supervisor of Public Accounts 
by Parish Superintendent and State Superintendent, S. 5, A. 25 
'10.) 

All State boards and commissions and other public offices 
created by law, and all educational and eleemosynary institutions 
of this State including parish school boards, road and drainage 
districts, shall furnish to said Supervisor of Public Accounts, 
quarterly, in each year, sworn statements of all moneys received 
by them, from what sources, and all monej^s expended by them 
and for w^hat purposes ; said statements shall be accompanied 
by vouchers and other papers necessary to prove the correct- 
ness of the same and no officer shall destroy any voucher or 
other paper belonging to his office before same has been examined 
and passed upon by said Supervisor of Public Accounts. 

It shall be the duty of the Supervisor of Public Accounts to 
check said statements, and, if any irregularities exist to call the 
attention of those responsible thereto. In case of any irregular!- 



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ties or defalcations or failure of any officer or employee to 
comply with the provisions of this' Act, it shall be the duty of 
the Supervisor of Public Accounts to immediately notify the 
Governor of the State. The quarterly sworn statements pro- 
vided in this section shall be furnished the Supervisor of Public 
Accounts between the first and fifteenth of January, April, July 
and October of each year; the Supervisor of Public Accounts 
shall install a system of accounting in every office, which by 
law it is made his duty to inspect and report upon. The Super- 
visor of Public Accounts shall return all vouchers to the re- 
spective offices after inspection. 

(Form of Accounts Prescribed; Records to Be Kept in Office, S. 6, 
A. 25, '10.) 

All public offices, boards, commissions and eleemosynary and 
educational institutions of this State and all parochial school 
boards, road and drainage districts, shall provide an office for 
their secretary and treasurer where their books and records must 
be kept. All accounts shall be kept in the form prescribed by 
the Supervisor of Public Accounts; that any failure of any 
officer or employee to furnish the Supervisor of Public Accounts 
with any information requested shall immediately report to the 
Governor of the State, who will take such action as he may deem 
proper. The Supervisor of Public Accounts is authorized to 
administer oaths and the Assistant Supervisor of Public Ac- 
counts when acting under instructions of the Supervisor of 
Public Accounts shall have the same power and authority as is 
granted under this Act to the Supervisor of Public Accounts, 
except in the matter of administering oaths. 

(Reports Filed by Supervisor; Duty of School Board Treasurer, S. 7, 
A. 25, '10.) 

The Supervisor of Public Accounts shall make all reports 
of his examination in duplicate, one to be filed with the Gover- 
nor and one in the office investigated, unless otherwise provided 
in this Act; if the report of any examination discloses any vio- 
lation by any public officer or employee, the Supervisor of Pub- 
lic Accounts shall furnish an additional copy to the district 
attorney of the parish M^iere said offense was committed. That 
the Auditor of Public Accounts shall furnish the Supervisor of 



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Public Accounts, in writing, whenever a tax collector is delin- 
quent, and every parish treasurer and every parish school board 
treasurer shall notify the Supervisor of Public Accounts when- 
ever any sheriff is delinquent in his settlement. 

(Penalty for Neglect of Duty, S. 10, A. 25, '10.) 

Section 10. That any public officer or employee in an office 
that is subject to examination by the Supervisor of Public Ac- 
counts who willfully neglects or fails to furnish said Super- 
visor of Public Accounts with such papers, accounts, books, or 
other documents which he has the right to inspect or audit un- 
der the terms of the Act, or who shall willfully refuse or neg- 
lect to transmit to said Supervisor of Public Accounts such 
reports, statements or accounts, or other documents, upon 
request as provided by the terms of this Act, shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor in office and shall, upon conviction, 
suffer a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than 
five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not less than ten days 
nor more than six months, or both such fine and imprisonment 
in the discretion of the court having jurisdiction, 

(Fees of Tax Collectors, SS. 1, 2, A. 181, '08.) 

That for all services, labors and duties performed by each 
Sheriff and ex-officio Tax Collector throughout the State of 
Louisiana as Tax Collector, Parish of Orleans excepted, he shall 
be paid five per centum on the first seventy-five thousand dol- . 
lars, aggregate amount of all State, Parish, District, Poll, and 
other taxes and licenses, collected by him and actually paid by 
him into the State and Parish Treasury or to the authority 
designated by law to receive the same; and two per centum on 
the next forty-five thousand dollars, and one per cent on all 
amounts over one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, pro- 
vided that no Sheriff and ex-officio Tax Collector shall receive 
for the collection of all taxes more than eight thousand dollars 
per annum, provided further that no Sheriff and ex-officio Tax 
Collector shall receive any compensation for the collection of 
special school taxes except in parishes where the total amount of 
State, Parish, Levee and Poll Taxes and licenses collected do 
not amount to $50,000. Be it further provided that in parishes 



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where the collection of State, Parish, Levee and Poll taxes and 
licenses do not amount to' $50,000 the Sheriff and ex-fficio Tax 
Collector shall receive five per cent on amount collected and 
actually paid into the State and Parish Treasury or to the 
authority designated to receive the same. 

The payment of the compensation herein provided for the 
Sheriff and ex-officio Tax Collector for the collection of Taxes 
and Licenses shall be distributed between the State, Parish, 
School Board and other taxing districts or divisions and licenses 
in proportion to the amount of taxes and licenses received by 
each. 

(Columbus Day, A. 56, 1910.) 

The several school boards of the State of Louisiana shall 
annually authorize, direct and instruct the parish superintendent 
of education, or other proper authority to observe the anniver- 
sary of the date of the discovery of America by Christopher 
Columbus, October 12, by such fitting- and appropriate exercises, 
as the said various and several school boards may determine 
upon and select. 

Sec. 2. Any failure upon the part of the said several and 
various school boards and parish superintendents to comply 
with the provisions of this Act, shall subject said school boards 
and members thereof, and the parish superintendent to charges 
of nonfeasance, and neglect of duty, which may be preferred 
by any person, before the proper authority. 

(Bird Day Established, S. 14, A. 198, '06.) 

Section 14. The State and Parish Boards of Public Educa- 
tion are directed to provide for the celebration, by all public 
schools, of "Bird Day," on May fifth of each year, being the 
anniversary of the birth of John James Audubon, the distin- 
guished son of Louisiana. 

On the recurring anniversary days, suitable exercises are to 
be engaged in, and lessons on the economic and esthetic value of 
the resident and migratory birds of the State are to be taught, 
by the teachers, to their pupils. 

(Accounts State Treasurer Shall Keep, S. 1326, R. S.) 

An account shall be opened on the books of the treasurer, to 
be called the Current School Fund ; such account shall be charged 



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with the annual expenditures for the public schools and credited 
with the net receipt for the special taxes laid by the General 
Assembly for the support of the public schools, and with the 
receipts from such other sources as may be designated by law. 
It shall be the duty of the Auditor, in his annual report, to pre- 
sent a statement of the condition of said fund, and an estimate 
of the special tax needed for the support of the public schools 
during- the ensuing year beyond the receipts for said support 
from other sources. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of 
Public Education to furnish the Auditor with all information he 
m^y require for his said report. 

(School Fund; How Applied, S. 1327, R. S.) 

The Current School Fund shall be used for the support of 
the public schools, and the surplus of receipts over expenditures 
for any one year, shall be appropriated to the support of public 
schools during the ensuing year; and the Act numbered 224 of 
eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and the Acts 180 and 265 of 
eighteen hundred and fifty-five, which direct said surplus to be 
funded, be and the same are hereby repealed. 

(Interest on United States Deposit Funds, S. 1328, R. S.) 

The interest on the United States deposit fund shall be 
appropriated to the annual support of the public schools, pro- 
vided by the Constitution ; and it shall be the duty of the Auditor 
and Treasurer annually to transfer from the general fund of 
the treasury to the current school fund the sum of twenty-eight 
thousand seven hundred and ninety-five dollars and fourteen 
cents, the amount of said interest. 

(Bonds and Fines, S. 64, A. 214. '02.) 

All fines imposed by the several district courts for violation 
of law, and the amounts collected on all forfeited bonds in 
criminal cases, after deducting commissions, shall be paid over 
by the sheriff of the parish in which the sarne are imposed and 
collected, to the treasurers of the school boards in said parishes, 
and shall be applied to the support of the public, schools as are 
applied the other funds levied for the purpose, the parish of 
Orleans excepted. 



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(Special School Taxes Authorized, S. 1, A. 256 of 1910. 

Parishes, wards, cities, towns, villages, school districts, road 
districts, drainage districts and sub-drainage districts are de- 
clared to he political sub-divisions of the State, and special taxes 
may be levied and debt incurred and negotiable bonds issued 
therefor- as hereinafter provided, except that the Parish of Or- 
leans and the City of New Orleans are exempted from the 
provisions of this Act. The governing authority of subdivisions 
herein defined shall be for parishes, wards and road districts 
within such parish, the Police Jury of the Parish; for cities, 
towns and villages, the municipal boards thereof, for drainage 
;and sub-drainage districts, the drainage commissions of the 
drainage district; for school districts, the school board of the 
parish in which they are located, and when a school district is 
composed of lands of more than one Parish, then the school 
board of the parish which furnishes the territory in said school 
district carrying the highest assessment. 

(School Board Authorized to Call Election for Special Taxes, S. 2, 
A. 256 of 1910.) 
The Police Jury of any parish acting for the parish, a ward 
or road district therein and the governing authorities of any 
other subdivision as herein defined shall have authority to call 
a special election for the purpose of submitting to the property 
taxpayers who are authorized to vote at such election under the 
Constitution and laws of the State of Louisiana, a proposition 
to levy a special tax not to exceed the limit that is now or may 
hereafter be fixed by the Constitution of Louisiana for the pur- 
pose of giving additional aid to public schools, constructing or 
purchasing any work of public improvement in keeping with the 
objects and purposes for which the subdivision was created, and 
the title to which shall vest in the public or in the subdivision in 
which such tax is levied ; and at the same election, similarly called 
and held, a proposition may be submitted to the property tax- 
payers as to whether or not they will incur debt and issue nego- 
tiable bonds therefor not to exceed ten (10 per cent) per centum 
of the assessed value of the property for the subdivision calling 
said election, to be issued for the purpose of purchasing or con- 
structing works of public improvement in keeping with the 



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objects and purposes for which the subdivision was created, and 
the title to which shall vest in the public or sub-division levying 
the tax. That such governing authority shall be required to call 
an election for either of the purposes above mentioned when 
requested to do so by the petition in writing of one-fourth of the 
property taxpayers eligible to vote in said election. 

(Resolution Calling the Election; Publication, S. 3, A. 256, MO.) 

In the resolution calling the election, the rate, object and 
purpose for which the tax is to be levied and the number of 
years it is to run, must be stated. If the proposition is to incur 
debt and issue negotiable bonds therefor, the object for which 
the debt is to be incurred, the number of years it is to run and 
the rate of interest to be paid on same, shall be stated in the 
proposition submitted to the property taxpayers. After such 
resolution is passed, a notice of said election shall be given, 
embracing substantially all things that are required to be set 
forth in the resolution, and shall set forth further that the 
authorities ordering the election will, in open session to be held 
at an hour and place named in such notice, proceed to open 
the ballot boxes, examine and count the ballots in number and 
amount, examine and canvass the returns, and declare the result 
of the election. Such notice shall be advertised for thirty days 
in a weekly newspaper published in the subdivision or parish 
in which the tax is proposed to be levied, and if there is no 
newspaper published in the parish, by posting in three public 
places in the subdivision ordering the election. Four weeks* 
publication in a newspaper shall constitute a publication for 
thirty days, provided thirty days intervene from the date on 
which the publication is first inserted and the day on which the 
election takes place. 

(Who Is Entitled to Vote, S. 4, A. 256, MO.) 

The property taxpayers, qualified as electors under the Con- 
stitution and laws of tihs state, shall be entitled to vote at such 
elections, the qualifications of such taxpayers as voters to be 
those of age, residence and registration as voters ; provided that 
resident women taxpayers shall have the right to vote at all 
such elections without registration, in person or by their agents 



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aathorized in writing, which written authorization shall be at- 
tached to such agent 's ballots, respectvely ; provided that, when- 
ever the limit and boundaries of any municipal corporation have 
been extended under the laws of this State, and the assessment 
roll that is to include .the property in the extended limits has not 
already been made for said municipal corporations, those who 
have become property taxpayers for said municipal corporation 
by the extension of its limits and who are qualified under the 
Constitution and laws of this State to vote, shall be permitted 
to vote under this Act, and that the assessment of the property 
within such municipal corporation as extended shall, for the 
purpose of ascertaining the assessed valuation of property herein 
and for the purpose, of any election under this Act, be taken 
from the last assessment roll of the parish. 

(Election Held Under Supervision and at Expense of School Board, 
S. 5, A. 256, '10.) 

Such elections shall be conducted under the supervision and 
at the expense of the subdivision ordering the same, the govern- 
ing authority of which shall appoint for each polling place three 
commissioners and one clerk of election (all of whom shall be 
registered A'oters), designate the polling places, provide the ballot 
boxes, ballots, the necessary blanks for tally sheets, lists of voters, 
valuation of property and compiled statement of the voters in 
number and amount, and fix the compensation of such election 
officers. 

(Duty of Registrar of Voters, S. 6, A, 256, '10.) 

It shall be the duty of the registrar of voters to furnish the 
commissioners appointed to hold such election with the lists of 
taxpayers entitled to vote in person or by proxy at such elections, 
together with the valuation of each taxpayer's property as shown 
by the assessment roll last made and filed prior to each election ; 
provided that, when any taxpayer's name and valuation of 
property shall be omitted from such list or erroneously entered 
thereon the commissioners of election shall have authority to 
receive affidavits of such taxpayer's right to vote and of the 
proper assessed valuation of his property, which affidavit shall 
be attached to such taxpayer's ballot. 



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(Manner of Challenging Voters, S. 7, A. 256, '10.) 

"Whenever the vote of any taxpayer shall be challenged, the 
commissioners of election shall receive in writing the grounds 
of challenge, signed by the person or persons challenging such 
vote, together with the challenged taxpayer's statement of his 
asserted right to vote, and attach such challenge and statement 
to his ballot. 

(Form of Ballots, S. 8, A. 256, '10.) 

The ballots provided for any election held under the provi- 
sions of this Act shall be of such form as to enable the voters 
to vote in favor or against the proposition submitted, and that 
when more than one proposition shall be submitted at the same 
time, they shall be so submitted as to enable one voter to vote 
on each proposition separately. The ballots to be used at such 
election shall be in the following form : 

FOR THE LEVYING OF A TAX. 



Proposition to levy a I 

aaill (Katej 

tax on all the property subject to State taxation in 

for the period 

. (Subdivision) 

.of for the purpose of 

(Term) 
(Here state the purpose of the tax) 
Taxable valuation $ ' 



■ (Signature of Voter) 



Yes 



No 



NOTICE TO VOTERS: To vote in favor of the proposi- 
tion submitted upon this ballot place a cross (X) mark in the 
square after the word "Yes;" to vote against it place a similar 
mark after the word ' ' No. ' ' 



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FOR THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS. 



Proposition to incur debt and issue bonds of 

to the amount of 

(Subdivision) 
(Amount) 

to run years, bear- 

(Term) 

ing. interest at the rate of 

(Rate) 

per centum per annum, payable for the. 

(Annually or semi-annually) for the purpose of 
(Here state the purpose of debt) 



Taxable valuation $ . 



Signature of Voter 



Yes 



No 



NOTICE TO VOTERS: To vote in favor of the proposi- 
tion submitted upon this ballot place a cross (X) mark in the 
square after the word "Yes;" to vote against it place a similar 
mark after the word "No." 

Note. — The voter must write his name on the back of his ticket. 
(Manner of Selecting Substitute Commissioners, Etc., S. 9, A. 256, MO.) 

Whenever any commissioner or clerk of election, appointed 
as provided in Section five of this Act shall be unable, fail, or 
neglect to attend or serve at the polling place designated at the 
hour fixed for the opening of the polls, or within one hour 
thereafter, the commissioner or commissioners present shall ap- 
point, or in the absence of all the commissioners the voters present 
shall elect the necessary number of commissioners and clerks, 
who shall have the same powers, compensation and duties as 
other commissioners and clerks, to serve in the place and stead 
of such absent or delinquent appointees. 

(Oath of Election Officers, S. 10, A. 256, '10.) 

The commissioners and clerks of such elections, before open- 
ing the polls, shall be sworn to perform all the duties incumbent 
on them as such, the oath to be taken before any officer author- 



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ized to administer oaths, or by the Clerk and each commissioner 
before any other commissioner, such commissioners of election be- 
ing authorized to administer any oath and to receive any afiQdavit 
provided for in this Act. 

(Voter's Name to Be Endorsed on Ballot, S. 11, A. 256, '10.) 

Each voetr's name shall be endorsed on his ballot; provided 
that ballots voted by proxy shall have endorsed thereon the 
names of both of the taxpayer and of her proxy. 

Note. — Attorney General Guion rules that persons voting for a special 
school tax or having to vote for a proposition to fund taxes into bonds shall 
endorse their names on tlie back of tlie tickets. Tlie voter's name and the 
value of his property will appear on the face of the ticket in the blanks ar- 
ranged for this purpose, but the voter's name should also be endorsed on the 
back of the ticket. 

(Manner of Voting, S. 12, A. 256, '10.) 

The commissioners of election shall receive the ballot of each 
voter, check his name, or that of his principal, on. the list of 
voters furnished bj^ the registrar as having voted, enter and num- 
ber his name, or that of his principal, on the list of taxpayers 
voting, and immediately deposit his ballot in the ballot box, 
reserving to each voter the right to so fold his ballot that it 
shall not be known at the time of his voting whether he has 
voted in favor of or against the proposition or propositions sub- 
mitted. 

(Time of Opening and Closing Polls, S. 13, A. 256. '10.) 

The polls of election ordered and held under the provisions 
of this act shall, on the day appointed for any such election, open 
at seven o'clock a. m. and remain open until and not later than 
five o 'clock p. m. ; provided that no election shall be vitiated by a 
failure to open the polls at the time prescribed or by closing the 
same before the time prescribed, unless, on a contest, it be proven 
that voters were thereby deprived of their votes sufficient in 
number and amount to have changed the result of such election. 

(Manner of Compiling Votes, S. 14, A. 256, '10.) 

That immediately after the closing of the polls, the commis- 
sioners shall, in the presence of the bystanders proceed to open 
the ballot boxes, count the ballots found in the box and check 
same with the list of voters kept, then proceed to count the votes 
in number and amount, keep in duplicate tally sheets showing 



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the votes in number in favor of and against the proposition or 
propositions submitted and showing valuation of property in 
favor of and against, same, make in duplicate compiled state- 
ments of the vote in number and amount, both in favor of and 
against such proposition or propositions ; that after swearing to 
|;he correctness of the numbered list of voters, the duplicate tally 
sheets and duplicate compiled statements, they shall deposit the 
ballots, the registrar's list of voters, the numbered list of tax- 
payers voting, one duplicate tally sheet and one duplicate com- 
piled statement, in the ballot box, immediately seal up said ballot 
box and, Avithin forty-eight hours after the closing of the polls, 
deliver said sealed ballot boxes with their contents to the author- 
ities ordering such election and shall within the same delay de- 
liver the other duplicate tally sheet and the other duplicate com- 
piled statement to the Clerk of the District Court of the parish 
in which such election has been held, who shall file the same in 
his office. 

If the election commissioners on counting the ballots find 
that they do not correspond with the list of voters, they shall 
before counting the ballots, examine same for the purpose of 
finding the discrepancy ; and if it should be found that any bal- 
lots have been duplicated the same shall be destroyed, or if it is 
found that the name of the voter has been omitted from the list 
of persons voting, same shall be added to said list. 

(Returns Canvassed by Governing Authority, S. 15, A. 256, '10.) 

On the day and at the hour and plax?e named in the notice 
ordering such election, the authorities under whose orders such 
election has been held, shall, in public session, proceed to open 
the ballot boxes, examine and count the ballots in number and 
amount, examine and canvass the returns and declare the results 
of such election, which result they shall thereafter promulgate 
by publication in one issue of the official journal, or other news- 
paper of the parish, where there is no official paper, or by post- 
ing where no newspaper is published. 

(Process Verbal Required, S. 15, A. 256, '10.) 

The authority ordering the election shall keep a process verbal 
of the manner in which the ballot boxes have been opened, the 



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returns canvassed and the result of the election ascertained and 
shall forward a copy of said process verbal to the Secretary of 
State, who shall record the same, another copy to the Clerk of 
the District Court who shall also record said copy in the mort- 
gage records of the parish, and the remaining copy shall be re- 
tained in the archives of the office of the authority ordering the 
election. 

(Returns Kept Three Months, S. 16, A. 256, '10.) 

The custodian of the archives or records of the authority 
ordering such election shall preserve, for the term of three 
months from the date of promulgation of such election, the 
ballots and other returns thereof. 

(Election Incontestible After Sixty Days, S. 17, A. 256, '10.) 

For a period of sixty days from the date of the promulgation 
of the result of any such election, any person in interest shall 
have the right to contest the legality of such election for any 
cause; after which time no one shall have any cause of action 
to contest the regularity, formality, or legality of said election 
for any cause whatever. If the validity of any election held 
under the provisions of this Act is not raised within sixty days 
herein prescribed, then no governing authority of any sub- 
division herein named, required to levy a tax or issue bonds 
as authorized at an election or under this Act, shall be permitted 
to refuse to perform that duty and urge as an excuse or reason 
therefor, that some provision of the Constitution or law Oj. 
Louisiana has not been complied with, but it shall be conclusively 
presumed that every legal requirement has been complied with, 
and no court shall have authority to inquire into such matters 
after the lapse of sixty days as herein provided. 

(Majority in Number and Amount Necessary to Carry an Election, 
S. 18, A. 256, '10.) 
Any proposition submitted by the governing authority of 
any subdivision as herein authorized either for the purpose of 
levying a tax, incurring a debt, or issuing bonds, must be voted 
for by a majority in number and amount of the property tax- 
payers, qualified as electors under the Constitution and laws of 
this State, voting at an election held for that purpose as herein 



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provided, before any such tax shall be levied, or before any debt 
shall be incurred or bonds issued. 

(Duty of Governing Authority to Levy and Assess Special Tax, S. 19, 
A. 256, '10.) 

In the event that any election ordered and held as aforesaid 
shall result in favor of the proposition to levy and assess special 
taxes upon the pi-operty subject to taxation in the Subdivision, 
the Police Jury for the Parish, Ward or Road District and the 
Governing Authority of any other Subdivision named herein 
shall, after the promulgation of the result of such election and 
pursuant to the terms of the proposition submitted levy and 
assess the said special taxes on such property , 

(Tax Not to Exceed Constitutional Limitation.) 

Provided that the total rate of taxation so imposed shall not 
exceed the Constitutional limit, nor shall such tax run for a 
greater number of years than the number named in the proposi- 
tion submitted, nor be imposed for any other purpose than that 
named in such proposition. 

(Bonds; Regulations for Same, S. 20, A. 256, '10.) 

In the event that any election ordered and held for the pur- 
pose of incurring debt and issuing negotiable bonds therefor 
shall result in favor of the proposition, the Police Juries for 
their respective Parishes, Wards or Road Districts and the gov- 
erning authorities of all other Subdivisions shall, after the pro- 
mulgation of the result of such election and pursuant to the 
terms of the proposition submitted, by resolution incur the debt 
and issue negotiable bonds therefor, to be signed by the President 
or Chairman and Secretary of the authority issuing the bonds, 
provided the bonds shall be issued for no other purpose than 
that stated in the submission of the proposition to the property 
taxpayers, nor for a greater amount than therein mentioned, 
nor for any other purpose than the purpose set forth in the 
proposition submitted to the property taxpayers a,nd as author- 
ized by the Constitution of the State, nor run for a longer time 
than that named in the proposition not exceeding forty years nor 
bear a greater rate of interest than five (5) per centum per 
annum, payable annually, nor issued for a greater amount than 



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ten per ceutum of the assessed value of the subdivision, including 
any prior bond issue nor be sold by the authorities issuing same 
for less than par. 

(Collection of Taxes Governed by General Laws, S. 23, A. 256, '10.) 

All the articles and provisions of the Constitution of 1898 
and all the laws in force or that may be hereafter enacted 
regulating and relating to the collection of State taxes and tax 
sales shall also apply to and regulate the collection of the special 
taxes or forced contribution, imposed under the provisions of 
tljis Act, through- the officer whose duty it shall be to collect the 
taxes and moneys due the municipal corporation, parish, or 
drainage district, imposing such special taxes, or forced contribu- 
tions. 

(Proceeds of Bonds a Trust Fund for Payment of Interest and Principal 
of Bonds, S. 24, A. 256, '10.) 
The proceeds of the sale of all bonds issued under the pro- 
visions of this Act shall constitute a trust fund, to be used ex- 
clusively for the purpose or purposes for which said bonds are 
authorized to be issued. That any income derived from the 
particular improvement purchased or constructed, when so set 
aside by resolution of the governing body of the subdivision, 
shall, after the expense and cost of maintenance of said improve- 
ments are paid, constitute, a trust fund to be devoted to the pay- 
ment of the interest on the indebtedness so contracted, and any 
surplus, after the payment of such interest, shall be placed in 
the sinking fund to be used in the extinguishment of the principal 
of said obligation or bonds at maturity. 

(Proceeds of Special Taxes Collected a Trust Fund, S. 25, A. 256, '10.) 

The proceeds of any special tax which have been voted for a 
particular purpose as authorized by the Constitution and the 
provisions of this Act shall constitute a trust fund to be used 
exclusively for the objects and purposes for which the tax was 
levied and shall from year to year as collected be kept separate 
and used for no other purpose than the purpose for which the 
said tax was voted. 

(Sinking Fund to Be Set Aside, S. 26, A. 256, '10.) 

If the bonds to be issued are to be paid out of funds realized 
from a tax, an acreage tax or forced contribution, which tax, 



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acreage tax or forced contribution is limited and a fixed amount 
required to be collected each year, then the governing authority- 
issuing the bonds and levying the acreage tax, shall, beginning 
at a yearly period before the maturity of such debt or bonds, 
which period shall never be less than one-fourth of the whole 
term for which said debt is incurred, or said bonds are issued, set 
aside annually, from said trust fund derived from said tax, 
acreage tax or forced contribution, a sinking fund for the pay- 
ment of the principal of said debt, or said bonds, at least 
one fraction of the principal of said debt, on said bonds, said 
fraction to be ascertained by dividing the principal of said debt 
or of said bonds by the remaining number of whole years before 
the maturity of said debt or bonds; and that the sinking fund 
thus set aside shall be sacredly applied to the payment of such 
debt and such bonds. The time from the commencement of the 
provision of a sinking fund as herein required, until the ma- 
turity of the said debt or of said bonds to be known as the re- 
demption period. 

(Tax to Pay Principal and Interest Must Be Levied Every Year, S. 27, 
A. 256, '10.) 

The governing authority of a Subdivision incurring debt 
and issuing bonds as herein contemplated, shall annually, at 
the same time that other taxes are levied, or at any other time, in 
addition to all other taxes now authorized by the Constitution 
and laws of the State of Louisiana, and in addition to any special 
tax that may be levied at any election called and held for 
that purpose, levy a tax sufficient to pay the interest and prin- 
cipal on said bonds becoming due the ensuing year. When a 
period is fixed at which such bonds shall begin to mature, the 
total amount of indebtedness shall be divided among the num- 
ber of years in which payments are to be made and the prin- 
cipal to be paid each year, fixed at such amount that, when the 
total annual interest is added thereto the amount to be paid each 
year shall be as nearly equal and uniform as possible. Such tax 
may be levied and extended upon the assessment roll at any 
time prior to the final collection of the taxes for that particular 
year. If the authority herein authorized to levy and assess such 
tax should fail, neglect or refuse to do so before the completion 



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of the assessment rolls, the Auditor of Public Accounts shall be 
authorized and it shall be his duty to name the rate of such tax 
and order same extended upon the assessment rolls and collected. 

(Maturity of Bonds Must Be Fixed, S. 28, A. 256, '10.) 

AVhenever a debt has been authorized to be incurred, the 
governing" authority issuing bonds to evidence such debt shall 
fix a time certain at which the bonds shall begin to mature, 
which shall not be longer than five years from the date of said 
bonds. After fixing such date, then the governing authorities 
shall fix the denomination of the bonds due each year thereafter 
fOT an amount that when the annual interest is added thereto 
the total amount to be paid, including principal and interest, 
each year shall be as nearly equal as practicable. 

(Bonds Shall Be Registered by Secretary of State, S. 31, A. 256, MO.) 

All bonds issued by any of the subdivisions of the State as 
herein defined, shall, after the time has elapsed in which the 
validity of such bonds can be contested, to-wit, sixty days from 
the date of the promulgation of the result of the election, in- 
curring the debt and ordering the issuing of such bonds, be reg- 
istered by the Secretary of State and shall have endorsed thereon 
the words : ' ' This bond secured by a tax. Registered on this the 

day of , 19 — ," and signed by the 

Secretary of State with the Great Seal of Louisiana affixed. 

(Election Officers Vested With Same Authority as in General Elections, 
S. 32, A. 256, '10.) 
The commissioners and clerks of elections held under the 
provisions of this Act shall have the same powers and duties in 
conducting said elections and in preserving order at the polls, 
as are conferred and imposed upon such officers under the 
general election laws of this State ; and that whatever is declared 
in the general election laws to be a felony, other crime, or mis- 
demeanor, shall be such for any election held under the pro- 
visions of this Act, and shall be punished in the same manner ; 
that any willful failure or neglect to comply with the require- 
ments of this Act or any willful violation of same, by any officer, 
agent, or employee, of any subdivision herein defined, availing 
itself of the provisions of this Act, shall be a crime and shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor 



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more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceed- 
ing one year, with or without hard labor, or by both such fine 
or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. 

(All Special Tax Elections Hereafter, Governed by This Act, S. 33, 
A. 256, MO.) 

Nothing in this Act shall be held or construed to invalidate, 
or render illegal the acts, proceedings, elections, taxes, debts, 
bonds, ordinances, resolutions, bids, agreements, contracts or 
obligations, done, had, held, levied, authorized to be levied, in- 
curred, authorized to be incurred, issued, authorized to be is- 
sued, adopted, accepted, or entered into, pursuant to any article 
of the Constitution, by any subdivision herein named (the City 
of New Orleans excepted) prior to the passage of this Act; 
that any provision in the charter of any municipal corporation 
of this State (the City of New Orleans excepted) in conflict with 
the provisions of this Act for the immediate submission of the 
proposition herein specified to the property taxpayers of said 
corporation in an election ordered by same under this Act and 
for the immediate levy of said tax when duly authorized, be 
and the same, insofar as it is in conflict therewith, is hereby 
repealed, 

(Inheritance Tax; How Paid and Distributed, S. 3, A. 45, '04.) 

In all cases where the inheritance tax appears to be due, it 
shall be the duty of the administrator, executor, or other officer 
in charge of the succession, or of the heir to pay over to the Tax 
Collector of the parish where the succession is opened the full 
amount of said inheritance tax and to present the receipt to the 
judge before obtaining a discharge or of being put in possession 
of the estate; the surety on the bond of the administrator, exec- 
utor or other officer in charge of the estate shall be liable in 
solido with the officer for the full amount of the inheritance tax ; 
such taxes shall be distributed to the several parishes in accord- 
ance with Article 248 of the Constitution. 

Note. — All Inheritance taxes shall be remitted to the State Treasurer, who 
shall credit same to Current School Fund.) 

(Duty of Parish Superintendent and Parish School Board, S. 4, A. 45, 
'04.) 

It shall be the duty of the parish superintendent and of the 
president of the .school board of the City of New Orleans to 



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see that this Act be carried out, and that the full amount of 
the inheritance tax be duly collected, and it shall be the duty 
of the District Attorney for the various parishes throughout 
the State, when called upon by the parish superintendent or 
the president of the school board in the Parish of Orleans to 
take proceedings to enforce the provisions of this Act. 

(Inheritance Tax in Favor of Public Schools, A. 109, '06.) 

There is now and shall hereafter be levied, solely for the 
support of the public schools, on all inheritances, legacies and 
other donations mortis causa to or in favor of the direct descend- 
ants or ascendants of the decedent, a tax of two per centum, and 
on all such inheritances or dispositions to or in favor of the 
collateral relatives of the deceased, or strangers, a tax of five 
per centum on the amount of the actual cash value thereof at 
the time of the death of the decedent. 

(When Not to Be Imposed.) 

Section 2. Said tax shall not be imposed in the following 
cases : 

a. On any inheritance, legacy or other donation mortis causa 
to or in favor of any ascendant or descendant of the decedent 
below ten thousand dollars in amount or value. 

h. On any legacy or other donation mortis causa to or in 
favor of any educational, religious or charitable institution. 

c. When the property inherited, bequeathed or donated shall 
have borne its just proportion of taxes prior to the time of such 
donation, bequest or inheritance. 

(Manner of Taking Possession of Succession.) 

Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any heir, legatee or other 
beneficiary of a donation mortis causa to take or be in possession 
of any part of the things or property composing the inheritance, 
legacy or other donation mortis causa, or to dispose of the 
same or any part thereof, until he shall have obtained the author- 
ity of the court to that effect, as hereafter provided; and in 
ease he shall so take or be in possession or shall so dispose of 
such things or property, or any part thereof, he shall no longer 
have the right of renouncing such inheritance or donation mortis 
causa, and shall remain personally liable for the tax thereon; 
but he may, without waiting for authority do such acts as may 



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seem necessary to preserve the property from waste, damage 
or loss. 

(Duty of Executor.) 

Section 4. The executor of the will of a person deceased, or 
the administrator of his succession, shall, after payment of his 
debts, proceed against the tax collector and all the heirs and 
legatees of the deceased summarily, by rule before the court 
which has jurisdiction of the succession, to fix the amount of tax 
due by each heir or legatee, and on trial thereof the court shnll 
render judgment for the same against each heir or legatee, with 
interest and costs, as hereinafter provided. 

(Amount of Taxes to Be Deducted by Executor.) 

Section 5. The executor or administrator shall thereupon 
pay to the tax collector the amount of tax, with interest and 
costs, so fixed, on each inheritance, legacy or donation, out of 
the funds comprised therein, if sufficient. Should there not be 
sufticient funds, the court shall, on the application of the heir 
or legatee, grant an order for the sale of the property composing 
such inheritance, legacy or donation, or so much thereof as may 
be necessary, for the purpose of paying such judgment. If the 
same be 2iot paid by the heir or legatee, or an order of sale be 
not granted, as above provided within thirty days after the date 
of the judgment, the court shall, on the application of the ex- 
ecutor or administrator, grant an order of sale for the said 
purpose, as above provided, and the executor or administrator 
shall pay the said judgment out of the proceeds of the sale. 

Such sale shall be mad. m such manner, and on such terms 
and conditions as the court shall prescribe, and the expense 
thereof shall be borne by the heir or legatee. 

(Duty of Executor.) 

Section 6. >io executor or administrator shall deliver any 
inheritance or legacy until the tax thereon shall be fixed and 
paid, as herein provided; otherwise he, together with his surety, 
shall be personally liable for said tax, with interest and cost. 
And no executor or administrator shall be discharged until it is 
shown that all taxes under this Act, due by the heirs and legatees, 
have been paid, or until it is judicially determined by the process 
herein provided that no tax is due. 



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(Duty of Legal Heir.) 

Section 7. In all cases in which an administration is not or- 
dered by the court, che legal or instituted heir, or universal 
or residuary legatee, shall within six months after the death 
of the decedent, or, should there be a will, within the same time 
after the discovery of the same, present to the court a detailed 
aescriptive list, sworn to and subscribed by him, of all items 
of property contained in and composing the estate of the de- 
cedent, and therein shall state the actual cash value of each such 
item at the time of the death of the decedent, and service thereof 
shall be made on the tax collector who shall have the right to 
traverse the same. Should the deceased have made special or 
particular legacies or donations mortis causa, the legatee shall 
also be served, and after summarily hearing the parties the court 
shall fix the amount of tax due as aforesaid by each such heir or 
legatee, and shall render judgment therefor, with interest and 
costs, against each of them. 

(Amount of Tax to Be Deducted.) 

Section 8. In the same manner as provided in Section 5, 
the heir or universal or residuary legatee shall thereupon pay or 
take measures for the payment of the tax due on all special or 
particular legacies or donations. 

(Property May Be Sold to Pay Taxes.) 

Section 9. The heir or universal or residuary legatee may 
likewise obtain an order for the sale of the property of his 
inheritance or legacy, or part thereof, for the purpose of paying 
the tax thereon. But if such tax be not paid, or such order of 
sale be not made within thirty days after the date of the judg- 
ment fixing the amount of the tax, a similar order for the same 
purpose shall be granted on the application of the tax collector, 
and thereunder any property forming part of the inheritance 
or legacy may be sold, and the proceeds thereof shall be applied 
to the payment of the tax with interest and costs. 

(Duty of Heir to See That Tax Is Paid.) 

Section 10. The heir or residuary or universal legatee shall 
not deliver any legacy until the tax thereon shall have been 
fixed and paid; otherwise he shall be personally liable for the 
said tax, with interest and costs. 



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(Search for Will; When Made.) 

Section 11. If during the six months next following the 
death of any person leaving property, movable or immovable, 
within this State, an administration of his succession be not 
applied for or, his legal -or instituted heir, or universal or residu- 
ary legatee do not apply to the court to be placed in possession 
thereof, as herein provided, the court shall ex parte and on the 
application of the tax collector grant an order directing that a 
search be made for the will of the deceased by a notary public, 
and in aid of the same may order that all persons having in their 
possession or control any books, papers or documents of the 
deceased, or any bank-box, safe deposit vault or other receptacle 
likely or designed to contain the same, shall open such receptacle 
and exhibit the contents thereof, as well as all other books, papers 
and documents of the deceased, to the said notary. 

(Court May Appoint Executor.) 

Section 12. Should the said notary find aiiy document ap- 
pearing to be the will of the deceased, he shall take possession 
of the same and produce it in court; and on application of the 
tax collector, or of any party in interest, the court shall proceed 
to the probate thereof, as now provided by law. If an executor 
be therein appointed, the person named shall be notified, and if 
he do not within ten days after notification accept the appoint- 
ment', and if within the ten days next follo^ving this delay no 
person entitled to be appointed dative testamentary executor 
shall apply for the appointment, then the Public Administrator 
in the Parish of Orleans, and in the other parishes the tax col- 
lector, shall be appointed dative testamentary executor of the said 
decedent, and the administration of his succession shall proceed 
as herein directed and according to existing law. 

(Procedure Where No Will Is Found.) 

Section 13. If the notary can find no Avill, he shall report 
the fact to the court; and thereupon the tax collector shall pro- 
ceed against the legal heir or heirs of the deceased summarily 
by rule to fix the amount of tax due by him or them, and each 
of the heirs shall be ordered, within a delay to be fixed by the 
court, which may be extended from time to time in the .discre- 
tion of the court, to make and file a detailed descriptive list, 



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sworn to and subscribed by him, of all the items of property 
contained in and composing the estate of the decedent, stating 
therein the actual cash value of each such item at the time of the 
death of the decedent, and the tax collector shall have a right 
to traverse the same. On trial of the rule the court shall fix the 
amount of tax due by each of the heirs, and shall render judg- 
ment for the same against each of them, and in such case, as 
well as in the cases mentioned in Section 12, shall include in 
the costs payable by the heir or legatee a fee of not more than 
ten per cent, on the amount of tax due by each heir or legatee 
in favor of the attorney for the tax collector. In the same 
manner and under the same conditions as provided in Sections 
5 and 9 of this Act, guch heirs or legatees shall have the right to 
procure the sale of their inheritances or legacies for the pur- 
pose of paying the tax due thereon, with interest, costs and at- 
torneys fees; and if payment thereof be not made by the heir 
or legatee, or if an order of sale, as above provided, be not 
granted, within thirty days after the date of the judgment, 
the tax collector shall be entitled to a similar order, and there- 
under any property forming part of the inheritance or legacy 
may be sold. 

(Any Heir May Institute Proceedings and Receive Fee.'> 

Section 14. Should there be more than one legal or instituted 
heir or universal or residuary legatee any one of them may 
institute the proceedings provided by this Act, and the others 
shall be made parties thereto and such heir shall be entitled to 
recover out of the mass of the succession one reasonable attor- 
ney's fee, besides his costs. 

(Rights of Creditors Preserved.) 

Section 15. Nothing contained in this Act shall affect the 
rights of creditors of persons deceased or the rights of the cred- 
itors of the heirs or legatees of such persons, as established by 
the general law. 

(Legacy Indivisible.) 

Section 16. Each inheritance or legacy is indivisible, and 
must be accepted or renounced for the whole; and the heir or 
legatee shall not be entitled to be placed in possession of the 



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same, and shall be without right or capacity to alienate any 
part thereof, until the tax on the whole shall have been fixed 
and paid, or until it shall have been judicially determined, in 
the manner herein provided, that no part of the same is subject 
to the tax imposed by this Act. 

(Prohibiting Delivery of Effects Before Tax Is Paid.) 

Section 17. No bank, banker, trust company, warehouseman, 
or other depository and no person or corporation or partnership 
having on deposit or in possession or control any moneys, credits, 
goods or other things or rights of value for a person deceased, 
or in which he had any interest, and no corporation the stock or 
registered bonds of which are owned by a person deceased shall 
deliver or transfer such moneys, credits, stock, bonds, or other 
things or rights of value to any- heir or legatee of such deceased 
person, unless the tax due thereon under this Act shall have 
been paid, or unless it be judicially determined in the manner 
herein prescribed that no tax is due by such heir or legatee. 
Otherwise the person or corporation so making delivery or trans- 
fer shall be liable for the said tax. But the order of a court 
of competent jurisdiction, directing such delivery or transfer, 
shall be full authority for the same. 

(Burden of Proof.) 

Section 18. The burden of proving facts establishing ex- 
emption from the tax imposed by this Act is upon the person 
claiming exemption. 

(Jurisdiction.) 

Section 19. The District uourr oi tne last domicile of the 
deceased, and in the Parish of Orleans the Civil District Court, 
shall have original jurisdiction to hear and determine all the 
proceedings provided by this Act. In the case of a non-resident 
decedent, the District Court, or Civil District Court, of any 
parish in which he left property, movable or immovable, shall 
exercise such jurisdiction, and the court in which such proceed- 
ings shall be first begun shall have exclusive original jurisdiction 
thereof. 

(Unknown Heirs.) 

Section 20. Non-residents and unknown heirs and legatees, 
artd those whose whereabouts are unknown, shall be represented 



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by curator ad hoc appointed by the court, and all notices, cita- 
tions and demands prescribed by this Act shall be served on such 
officers. Though there be in any case more than one unknown 
or absent heir or legatee, all may be represented by the same 
curator. 

(Commissions of Tax Collectors.) 

Section 21. The tax collector spoken of and intended by this 
Act is the Sheriff and ex-officio Tax Collector of the parish in 
which was the last residence of the decedent, or in which is sit- 
uated property of a non-resident decedent, and in the Parish of 
Orleans the Clerk of the Civil District Court. They shall re- 
ceive a commission of two per cent on their collections of taxes 
under this Act. 

(Compensation of Attorneys.) 

Section 22. In and for the Parish of Orleans the Governor 
shall appoint by and wdth the advice and consent of the Senate, 
for a term of four years, an attorney at law, whose duty it shall 
be to advise, assist and represent the Clerk of the Civil District 
Court in the enforcement of this Act. For his services, except 
as provided in Sections 12 and 13, he shall receive a fee of four 
per cent, on all taxes collected hereunder, payable out of the same 
before transmission to the Treasury. In all other parishes of 
the State the said duties shall be performed by the attorneys 
appointed under existing law to assist the tax collectors in the 
collection of delinquent licenses, and the compensation of such 
attorney shall be as above provided. 

(Method of Fixing Value of Annuity.) 

Section 23. In fixing the value of any legacy or donation 
mortis causa which consists in whole or in part of an annunity 
or usufruct or right of use or habitation, the court shall consider 
the expectancy of life of the legatee or donee according to the 
table known as the American Experience Table of Mortality, at 
six per cent, per annum compound interest. 

(Delinquent Penalty.) 

Section 24. Taxes hereby levied shall bear interest at the 
rate of two per cent per month, beginning six months after the 
death of the decedent ; saving to any heir, legatee, or donee the 



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right to stop the running of interest against him by paying the 
amount of liis tax with accrued interest, or by tendering the same 
to the tax collector in the manner prescribed by the general law ; 
provided, however, that in cases in which the settlement of the 
succession is not unduly delayed, or in which the right of any 
party to receive an inheritance or legacy is contested, and in all 
cases in which the failure to pay tax on any legacy or inherit- 
ance within the period aforesaid is not imputable to the laches 
of the heir or legatee, the court may, in its discretion, remit such 
interest. 

(Costs to Be Borne by the Succession.) 

Section 25. The costs of all the proceedings under this Act 
shall be borne by the mass of the succession ; provided, that in 
cases in which it seems to him equitable to do so the judge shall 
have the power to apportion the costs among the several parties, 
or allow any party to retain his costs out of any sum found to 
be due by him for tax hereunder. Provided, the provisions of 
this Act shall affect all successions not finally closed, or in which 
the final account has not been filed. 

(Assessing the Poll Tax, S. 1, A. 89, '88). 

The Tax Assessors throughout the State be and they are 
hereby required to render to the School Boards of their respective 
parishes, annually, by the first Saturday of October, a complete 
schedule list, by wards, of all persons liable to pay poll tax in 
their respective parishes. If any Assessor fails to comply with 
the requirements of this Act, the failure shall be cause for re- 
moval ; besides, he shall be subject to a fine of $250, for the benefit 
of the public schools in the parish in which the delinquent officer 
resides, and in which he is the Assessor. In the City of New 
Orleans the Board of Assessors shall comply with the require- 
ment of this Act, and in the event of failure, shall be subject 
to dismissal and penalty as before provided. (See Arts. 231 and 
252, Constitution of 1898.) 

(Returns of Collections, S. 2, A. 89, '88.) 

The Sheriffs and Tax Collectors in their respective parishes 
shall return, by the first Saturday of February, of each and every 
year, to the School Boards of their respective parishes, a list pred- 



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icated upon the list mentioned by wards, showing all persons in 
the parishes, respectively, who have paid their poll tax, as well 
as persons who have not paid the same, and shall return their 
reasons in writing and under cath, the cause in each instance 
of the non-payment of a poll tax, and why they have not collected 
the tax not collected. 

(Penalties, S. 3, A. 89, '88.) 

If the said Sheriff or Tax Collector fails to show cause why 
the said poll tax has not been collected, he shall be responsible 
for and shall pay the poll taxes he has failed to collect, and shall 
be held liable with his securities on his official bond for the pay- 
ment of said tax. 

(Rules for Non-Compliance, S. 4, A. 89, '88.) 

The Slieriff can be made to show cause Avhy the said poll tax 
has not been collected, at chambers, before the district judge, 
after service of rule and three days have elapsed after service. 

(Receipt for the Poll Tax, S. 1, A. 87, '86.) 

Before any persons serving as jurors or witnesses in criminal 
cases shall receive the compensation to which they are entitled 
for their mileage and per diem, they shall exhibit to the (?lerk 
of the court a receipt for the poll tax or taxes due by them. 

(Deduction of Witnesses' and Jurors' Compensation, for Poll Tax. S. 2, 
A. 87, '86.) 

On their failure to produce such receipt the clerk of court 
or other officer, issuing certificates or warrants for their mile- 
age and per diem, shall issue certificates or warrants for amounts 
less the poll tax due, and shall issue the certificate or warrants 
for amounts so reserved for poll tax, to the treasurer of the 
school board of the parish, who shall collect same. 

(Report by the Clerk of Court, S. 3, A. 87, '86.) 

The clerk of court or other officer, issuing such certificates or 
M'arrants, shall report to the tax collector of the parish the names 
of all persons from whom he has reserved amounts for poll tax, 
and the tax collector shall give such person credit for such poll 
tax. 

Note. — The custom of some tax collectors of claiming and collecting com- 
missions for the retention of polls by the Clerk of Court is without foundation 
in law, as the tax collector in no sense collects the tax and is entitled to no 
oommission thereon. 



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(Poll Tax Collections of Orleans, S. 1, A. 56, '94.) 

The collection of poll taxes in the Parish of Orleans, to- 
gether with all the processes, commissions and obligations inci- 
dent thereto as now provided by law, are vested in the treasurer 
of the City of New Orleans. 

(Election on Sale of School Lands, S. 2958, R. S.) 

It shall be the duty of the parish treasurers of the several 
parishes in this State to have taken the sense of the inhabitants 
of the township, to which they may belong, any lands heretofore 
reserved and appropriated by Congress for the use of schools, 
whether or not the same shall be sold, and the proceeds invested 
as authorized by an Act of Congress, approved February 15, 
1843. * * * Polls shall be opened and held in each town- 
ship after advertisement, for thirty days, at three of the most 
public places in the town, and at the courthouse door; and the 
sense of the legal voters therein shall be taken within the usual 
hours, and in the usual manner of holding elections, which elec- 
tions shall be held and votes received by a member of the parish 
school board or a justice of the peace ; and if a majority of the 
legal voters be in favor of selling the school lands therein, the 
same may be sold, but not otherwise. The result of all such elec- 
tions shall be transmitted to the parish treasurer, and by him to 
the State Superintendent. 

(Survey, S. 2959, R. S.) 

Before making sale of the school lands belonging to the State, 
it shall be the duty of the parish treasurer, or other persons 
whose duty it may become to superintend the sales, to cause a 
resurvey of such lines as from any cause may have become oblit- 
erated or uncertain; and for this purpose he is authorized to 
employ the parish surveyor, or on his default, any competent 
surveyor; and the lines thus surveyed shall be marked in such 
manner as to enable, those interested to make a thorough exam- 
ination before sale, and all advertisements made for the sale of 
such lands shall contain a full description thereof according to 
the original survey and that required by this section. The ex- 
penses of the survey shall be paid by the Auditor of Public Ac- 
counts out of the proceeds of the sale of the lands on^the war- 
rants of the parish treasurer. 

Note. — The State is the trustee of these lands or of the proceeds of their 
sale for the use of the hihataitants of the township in whicli tliey are located — ■ 
vide. Board of School Directors, vs. Ober, 32 A. 419. 



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(Rights of Way May Be Granted to the United States by the School 
Boards, A. 14, '08.) 

The Parish Board of School Directors of any parish within 
the State shall have authority by resolution duly passed by said 
board, when in its judgment it is to the manifest interest of the 
public in general, and in order to facilitate the construction, 
maintenance and operation of canals, or a portion of a canal, or 
branch of any canal, constructed by or under the authority of 
the United States for the purpose of transportation or for pur- 
poses of extension or improvement of the public waterways, to 
donate to the United States of America rights of way over and 
across any of the lands belonging to the public schools located 
within the parish in which said board is constituted or organized, 
which grant or donation may be made without any previous ad- 
vertisement thereof, when authorized by a resolution of said 
board to sign an act of conveyance evidencing such grant or 
donation ; provided, however, that the said Parish Boards of 
School Directors shall in every case reserve the right to control, 
occupy and use any part of said rights of way not actually 
needed by the United States in the manner and to the same 
extent as before conveying said rights of way, and also the right 
to transfer, lease, quit-claim, or otherwise dispose of the said 
rights of way and every part thereof, subject to the grant made 
to the United States. 

(Sale on the Order of the Auditor, S. 2960, R. S.) 

If the majority of the votes taken in a township shall give 
their assent to the sale of the lands aforesaid, the parish treas- 
urer shall forthwith notify the Auditor of Public Accounts of the 
vote thus taken, and upon his order the said lands shall be sold 
by the parish treasurer, at public auction, before the courthouse 
door, by the sheriff or an auctioneer to be employed by the 
treasurer at his expense, to the highest bidder, in quantities not 
less than 40 acres, nor more than 160, after having been pre- 
viously appraised by three sworn appraisers, selected by the 
parish treasurer and recorder of the parish, after thirty (30) 
days advertisement, but in no case at a less sum than the ap- 
praised value, payable on a credit of ten years, as follows : ten 
per cent in cash and the balance in nine annual installments, the 



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interest to be paid on the whole amount, annually, at the rate of 
eight per cent per annum ; the notes shall be made payable to the 
Auditor of Public Accounts, secured by special mortgage on the 
land sold, and personal security in solido, until final payment of 
principal and interest; in event of the purchaser neglecting or 
refusing to pay any of these installments or interest at maturity, 
the mortgage shall be forthwith closed, and the parish treasurer 
is hereby authorized to advertise and sell the land as before pro- 
vided for, and further authorized and required to execute all 
acts of sale on behalf of the State for any such lands sold, to 
receive the cash payment and notes given for the purchase, which 
shall be made payable to the State Treasurer, and to place 
the same in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts for 
collection ; all cash received, either for principal or interest, 
from said sales shall be transmitted by him to the State Treas- 
urer, and any moneys thus received into the State Treasury 
from sales aforesaid shall bear interest at the rate of four per 
cent per annum, and be credited to the township to which the 
same belongs according to the provisions of the Act of Congress. 
The parish treasurer shall forthwith notify the State Super- 
intendent of the results of all sales made by him. The parish 
treasurer shall be authorized to receive the whole amount bid 
for the lands, deducting the eight per cent interest which the 
credits will bear. (See Supreme Court decision as to price, etc.) 

Note. — The above Act has been amended by Act 57 of '84, changing 6 per 
cent to 4 per cent. 

(Sale of Uninhabitable Lands, S. 1, A. 168, '94.) 

All sixteenth section lands located in a township not habita- 
ble by reason of the land being swamp or sea marsh, the school 
board of the parish in which such lands are located may present 
an application for sale of such sixteenth section land to the And- 
itor of Public Accounts, in which they shall set forth the location 
of the to\rnship, its character and the reason upon which a sale is 
desired, and upon receipt of such application duly signed by the 
president and secretary thereof, the Auditor may authorize the 
sale, if in his judgment a sale should be made. 

(Sale Conducted in the Same Manner as Others, S. 2, A. 168, '94.) 

In case a sale is ordered as provided for in Section 1 of this 
Act, the parish treasurer shall make such sale in the same man- 



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ner, and vipon the terms and conditions as is now provided by 
law, for the sale of sixteenth section lands ; provided this Act 
shall not apply to sixteenth sections now leased to parties for a 
term of years. 

(Sale of Sections Divided by Parish Lines, A. 147, '57.) 

When the sixteenth section of any township is divided by 
a parish line, the treasurer of the parish in which a greater 
portion of the section may lie, shall proceed to take the sense of 
the people of the township, and to sell the same as provided by 
law, as if the whole section lay in his parish; provided, that 
the same shall be advertised at the courthouses of both parishes. 

(Treasurer's Commission, A. 33, '59.) 

Parish treasurers of the several parishes shall be entitled 
to retain out of the proceeds of the sale of sixteenth sections 
effected by them a percentage of two and one-half on the amount 
of said sales, to be deducted from the cash payment, and the 
same shall be in full compensation of their services. 

(Proceeds of Lands Accruing to Townships, S. 2963, R. S.) 
All moneys that have been or may hereafter be received into 
the State Treasury, and the interest that has or may accrue 
thereon from the sale of sixteenth sections of school lands 
or the school land warrants belonging to the various to^\^lshlps 
in the State, shall be placed to the credit of the township, and 
should the people of any township desire to receive for the 
use of the schools therein, the annual interest payable by the 
State on funds deposited to their credit, or the annual proceeds 
of the loans, the parish treasurer shall, on the petition of five 
legal voters in any such township, order an election to be held 
in the township, as provided for the sale of township lands ; and 
if a majority of any number of votes above seven be in favor of 
receiving annually the accruing interest as aforesaid, the same 
shall be paid to the treasurer of the parish for the use of the 
township or district; otherwise the interest shall be an accu- 
mulating fund to their credit un.til called for. 

(Mode of Annulling Sales, S. 2965, R. S.) 

In all cases of the sale of the school lands known as sixteenth 
sections, heretofore made, where the purchase money has not 
been paid, the purchaser or purchasers shall have the right to 



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annul the sale upon application to the district court of the par- 
ish where the land is situated; provided, that the judgment of 
nullity shall be obtained at the cost of the applicant and con- 
tradictorily with the district attorney, in conjunction with the 
school directors of the district in which said land is situated, 
who shall be made a party defendant in such suit; provided, 
also, that it shall appear upon the hearing that the value of the 
land has not been impaired by any act of the purchaser; and 
provided further, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed 
as to entitle the said purchaser to repayment of any part of 
the purchase money already pdid. 

(Auditor's Duty in the Collection of Notes, S. 1, A. 57, '84.) 

It shall be the duty of the Auditor of Public Accounts, im- 
mediately on the passage of this Act, to forward for collection 
to the treasurer of the school board in. their respective parishes 
throughout the State, all the notes given for the purchase price 
of sixteenth sections, or any part thereof, known as free school 
lands, whenever any installment of said purchase price has. 
become due or may become due, and it shall be the duty of said 
treasurer of the parish school board to receive and receipt for 
same. 

(School Board Treasurer's Duty in the Collection of Notes, S. 2, 
A. 57, '84.) 

It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the parish school 
board, on receipt of the notes due and given for said sixteenth 
sections, to immediately notify the principal and his sureties, in 
writing, of the amount of said note, principal and interest, due 
and unpaid; provided, said lands for which said notes were 
given are still in possession of the original purchaser, and if in 
the possession of other parties, such possessor shall also be like- 
wise notified of all the demands principal and interest, against 
said lands, and if all the demands against the same be not satis- 
fied within thirty days from said notice, it shall be the duty of 
the treasurer of the parish school board to turn over said notes 
to the district attorney for said district, or other attorney selected 
by the school board, for suit; and provided further, that said 
notice shall serve as a bar to prescription, Avhicli shall only begin 
to run from the service of said notice. 



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(Attorney's Duty in the Collection of Notes, S. 3, A. 57, '84.) 

It shall be the duty of said attorney to proceed without 
delay, by all necessary legal processes, and without depositing 
clerk's or sheriff's costs, or giving security therefor, to collect 
all such notes as may be turned over to him by said treasurer 
of the parish school board, and given for sixteenth sections, 
known as free school lands, and if any of the conservatory writs 
should be found to be necessary in order to aid in said collection, 
it shall be lawful to issue the same, without giving bond as 
required in other cases. 

(Attorney's Compensation, S. 4, A. 57, '84.) 

The said attorney shall receive ten per cent of all moneys 
collected by him on notes given for sixteenth sections, and after 
deducting said ten per cent he shall turn over the remainder to 
the treasurer of the school fund for the parish in which the lands 
are situated, and the same shall be transmitted through the 
Auditor of Accounts, by said treasurer, to the State Treasurer; 
and any moneys thus received into the State Treasury from 
said collections shall bear interest at the rate of four per cent 
per annum, and be credited, to the township to which the same 
belongs, according to the provisions of the Act of Congress. 

(When Scrip May issue, S. 2952, R. S.) 

When such locations cannot be made, if deemed more ad- 
vantageous to the State, the Register, with the assent of the 
Federal Government, is authorized to issue scrip for such lands, 
which scrip shall not be sold for a less amount than one dollar 
and twenty-five cents per acre. 

(Duty of the Auditor in Fixing Capital Due the Townships, A. 96, '86,) 

It shall be the duty of the Auditor of Public Accounts, by 
the 1st day of January, 1887, to ascertain the amount of capital 
that may be due the several townships from the proceeds of 
the sales of sixteenth sections, made since the 1st of January, 
1880, and actually paid into the State Treasury. The amount 
thus ascertained shall be the capital upon which interest shall 
thereafter be allowed and paid out of the interest collected on 
the said bonds to the townships, the sixteenth sections of which 
have been sold since the 1st of January, 1880, and the proceeds 



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actually paid into the State Treasury, and the proceeds so paid 
invested as required by law. 

In calculating the interest due the several townships, no in- 
terest shall be allowed for fractions of the year during which 
the receipts shall have come into the treasury ; but it shall com- 
mence at the beginning of the first of January of the next year. 

The interest due upon the capital ascertained as aforesaid, 
and the interest due upon subsequent sales, shall be paid to the 
township in the manner now provided for by law. It shall be 
the duty of the Auditor to furnish the Treasurer and Superin- 
tendent of Public Education with a statement of the amount 
due each township. 

(Lake Beds Sold for Account of Schools, A. 124, '02.) 

Section 1. All islands, other than sea marsh islands, be- 
longing to the State, as well as all other lands of the State, not 
the property of any levee district, nor within the limits of 
any levee district, which were formerly the beds of lakes, or 
other bodies of water, whether navigable or unnavigable, which 
are now, or may hereafter become dry in whole or in part by 
reason of the recession therefrom of the waters which formerly 
covered the same, be and the same are hereby declared to be 
open to entry and sale for account of the State for school pur- 
poses as hereinafter provided. 

(Proceeds of Sale of Ail Such Lands to Be Placed to the Credit of 
General School Fund, A. 124, '02.) 

Section 7. The proceeds arising from the sales of said lands 
shall, when paid into the hands of the State Treasurer, be placed 
by him to the credit of the General School Fund of the State 
for the benefit of the public schools of the State as now pro- 
vided by law; provided that in addition to the price paid the 
Treasurer the purchaser of any of the lands described in this 
Act shall pay to the Register the fees allowed by law. 

(Duty of School Board When Vote Is Against Sale of Lands, S. 1, A. 54, 
'10, amending A. 129, '08, amending S. 2962 of the Revised 
Statutes.) 

Should a majority of the legal voters be against the sale of 
the lands, then it shall be the duty of the parish board of school 
directors of the parish in which said lands are located to secure 



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them from injury and waste and to prevent illegal possession or 
aggression of any kind and to lease the same, or any part thereof, 
according to the provisions of the 'Act of Congress aforesaid as 
amended by Act of Congress approved June 12th, 1884, and to 
inform the State Superintendent thereof. 

(Advertising Lease; Security Required.) 

Such lease shall only be made after due notice shall have been 
given by advertisement, for at least thirty days, in the official 
journal of the parish, or in any paper published regularly in the 
parish containing the land to be leased, of the time and place 
where the land ^\dll be offered for lease to the highest bidder. In 
all cases ample security shall be required, not only for the punct- 
ual payment of the rent but f9r the protection of the lands from 
all kinds of -waste and injury. Said parish board of school 
directors shall have the right to reject any and all bids offered 
for said lease, if in its judgment the bids do not reach a just and 
fair value of the lease. 

(Manner of Holding Elections on Sale of Timber; Lease of Oil and 
Mineral Rights.) 

The Parish Board of School Directors shall have the author- 
ity, when in its judgment it is to the best interest of the schools 
of a township, to take the sense of the legal voters residing in 
such township relative to the sale of the timber on sixteenth 
section school lands situated therein or the lease or sale of oil 
and mineral rights on such land. Said vote shall be taken under 
the direction of said board, who shall give thirty days' notice 
thereof in the parish journal, or in any paper regularly pub- 
lished in the parish, setting forth the time and place of the elec- 
tion to be held. The said board shall appoint one of its mem- 
bers to conduct the election, who shall hold open the polls and 
allow votes to be cast within the usual hours and in the usual 
manner of holding elections. 

(Affirmative Vote to Be Reported to State Superintendent and Auditor 
of Public Accounts.) 

If a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the sale of the 
timber, or the lease or sale of oil and mineral rights, the Parish 
Board of School Directors shall at once report the result of the 
election to the State Superintendent of Public Education and 



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to the State Auditor of Public Accounts, and upon the order 
of the State Auditor the said board shall proceed to sell the 
timber or lease or sell the oil and mineral rights, either or both, 
as the case may be, under the same formalities and requirements 
as provided for the lease of sixteenth section school lands here- 
inabove set forth. 

(Notes Made Payable to Auditor of Public Accounts, Secured by at 
Least Two Solvent Sureties in Solido.) 

In all cases where a sale of timber or of oil and mineral rights 
is made under the provisions of this Act and deferred payments 
are allowed, the notes representing such deferred payments 
shall be made payable to the order of the Auditor of Public 
Accounts, and their punctual payment shall be secured by at 
least two good and solvent sureties who shall be liable "in 
solido." 

(Funds Accruing From Lease of Lands, Sale of Timber and Mineral and 
Oil Rights Credited to Current School Fund of Parish.) 

In all cases of the lease of sixteenth section school lands, or 
of the sale of the timber thereon or of the lease or sale of oil and 
the mineral rights thereof, the cash payment after deducting suf- 
ficient amount to cover the actual expenses incurred by the said 
election and making the said lease or sale, shall be credited to 
the account of the current school fund of the parish where the 
sixteenth section school lands are located, and notes representing 
deferred payments shall be placed in the hands of the parish 
school treasurer for collection, and when collected also credited 
to the current school fund of said parish, to be used for general 
school purposes. 

(Leases or Sales of Timber, Oil and Mineral Righis Expire Automatic- 
ally After Ten Years.) 

In all cases where a sale of timber or the lease of or sale of 
the oil and mineral rights is made under the provisions of this 
Act, the purchaser thereof or his vendees, or the lessee, shall 
be allowed a period of not more than ten years in which to 
remove the timber or to utilize the oil and mineral rights. 

(Trespass on Sixteenth Section, S. 1, A. 14, '82.) 

Whoever shall cut down, or remove for sale for his own use, 
or the use of another, any timber on any free school land in this 



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State, belonging to the State, known as sixteenth section, shall 
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be 
condemned to pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one 
thousand dollars, and, in default of the same, be sentenced to 
imprisonment not less than ten days nor more than one year. 

(Same, S. 2, A. 14, '82.) 

Whoever shall knowingly use, cultivate or inclose any free 
school land, known as sixteenth section, without authority from 
the parish board of school directors, shall on conviction be con- 
demned to pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one 
thousand dollars, and in default of the same be sentenced to 
imprisonment for not less than ten days nor more than one year. 

(School Boards Authorized to Sue for Recovery of Damages and Tres- 
pass on Sixteenth Sections, S. 1, A. 153, '10.) 

The several school boards of the various parishes of the State 
be and they are hereby authorized and empowered Iq contract 
with and employ on the part of the State of Louisiana, attor- 
neys at law, to recover for the State, damages for trespass to 
the sixteenth section known as school lands the title to which 
is still in the State, each of said Boards to have authority to 
make said contracts for the lands situated in its own parish 
and no others; and the several school boards shall also have 
authority to sue for and recover the sixteenth section known 
as school lands. 

(Compensation of District Attorney and Other Attorneys, S. 2, A. ""iS, 
MO.) 
The attorney or attorneys thus employed shall work in con- 
junction with the district attorney for the parish in which the 
land is situated; that the compensation of the district attorneys 
shall remain as now fixed by law; that the compensation of 
the other attorney or attorneys employed shall be fixed by con- 
tract between the respective school boards and the attorney or 
attorneys employed, and shall in each case be a contingent fee, 
conditioned upon recovery ; shall in each case be a fixed per- 
centage of the amount recovered, and shall in no case exceed 
twenty-five percentage of the amount recovered; provided that 
if more than one attorney is thus employed for the same cause, 
the same fee shall be paid to the whole number of attorneys, as 
if only one had been employed. 



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(Manner of Bringing Suits, S. 3, A. 158, '10.) 

Suit in all such cases shall be brought in the name of the 
State of Louisiana, and the attorneys employed as aforesaid, 
shall sue for the value of all timber cut and removed from any 
such- lands, as well as any and all other legal damages caused 
by any such trespass. 

(Autiiority Applies to Sixteenth Sections Illegally Acquired.) 

The authority given by this Act shall apply to all sixteenth 
sections donated by Congress to this State in trust for public 
school purposes, and to which the State has never legally parted 
with the title; and the suits herein authorized may be brought 
against those who claimed the right to cut and remove timber 
from any such lands, under color of title. 

(Residue of Amounts Recovered to Be Paid Into State Treasury.) 

Each and every amount recovered for the State as herein 
provided shall, after deducting and paying the attorney's fees 
as herein provided, and all other lawful costs and charges, be 
paid into the State Treasury, to be kept on the books of the 
Auditor and Treasurer, to the credit of the township in which 
the land is situated, in the same manner as now provided by 
law for the proceeds of the sale of such sixteenth sections. 

(To Provide for the Sale of School Indemnity Lands, A. 217, '02.) 

Section 1. That all lauds now owned by, or which may 
hereafter inure to the State from the United States Govern- 
ment as indemnity for school lands, shall be disposed of as 
hereinafter provided. 

Section 2. That the Register of the State Land Office shall 
eauso to be advertised for sale at public auction for thirty clear 
days, a list of the lands to be sold, which have not already been 
advertised, the publication to be made in a newspaper published 
in the parish where the land to be sold is situated, and no land 
to be sold shall be advertised in any paper published outside of 
the parish where the same is situated. 

Section 3. That the Register shall adjudicate said lands at 
public auction to the last and highest bidder at his office and in 
case the land so offered for sale fails to bring at auction the price 
of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per acre the same shall be' 



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withdrawn and shall be thereafter sold by him at private sale for 
two dollars and fifty cents per acre. 

Section 4. That the Register shall not issue a patent to the 
purchaser of said land until he shall have paid into the hands 
of the State Treasurer the purchase price of said lands. 

Section 5. In addition to the purchase price paid for said 
lands, the purchaser thereof shall pay to the Register the same 
fees, as in other cases where a patent is issued, and out of the 
purchase price so paid, the Treasurer of the State shall pay the 
cost of advertising said property and place the balance thereof 
.J,o the credit of the various school boards entitled to receive 
same. 

Section 6. The provisions of this Act shall not refer nor apply 
to applications for the entry and sale of school indemnity lands 
which may be pending in the State Land Office at the time of 
the passage of this Act. 

(Sale Which Can Be Made by the Land Register, A. 315, '55.) 

It shall be lawful for the Register of the State Land Office 
to sell, at the price stipulated by law, to any board of free 
school district directors of this State, any amount, not less than 
five acres, of any land within their school district, donated 
by Congress to this State, either for the use of a seminary of 
learning, or for the purpose of internal improvement, on which 
to erect a schoolhouse, 

(How Located, S. 2947, R. S.) 

Any land so sold shall commence in the corner of a legal 
division or sub-division of sections; and if in a right angle, it 
shall be run an equal distance on two sides, bounded by the line 
of such division, and form a square including the number of 
acres sold; if in an acute angle, it shall be bounded by said 
division lines to such distance, and by lines in such other direc- 
tions as the Register may deem most equitable between the land 
so sold and that retained; the patents for lands so sold shall 
issue to the free school directors and their successors, for the 
use of their district schools, setting forth the number, and of 
what parish. 



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(Reservation of School Lands, A. 316, '55.) 

The Register of the State Land Office is required to ascer- 
tain in what township in this State there are no reservations 
of school sections by reason of conflicting claims or from any 
other cause, or where the reservation is less than contemplated 
by law; and in such cases it is made his duty under the super- 
intendence of the Governor, to a,pply for, and as soon as possi- 
ble, obtain a location of any land or part of land in lieu thereof. 

(Providing for the Deposit of Public Funds, A. 25, '07, amended by 
A. 282, '08.) 

That all funds of the State of Louisiana, and of all parishes 
and municipalities thereof, and all public boards, commissions, 
md bodies created by or under the authority of the State or 
my parish or municipality thereof, shall be deposited weekly 
in the fiscal agency or agencies hereinafter mentioned. Such 
deposits shall be made in the name of the State, or of the "parish, 
municipality, board, commission or body having by law the 
custody of the same. 

(Fiscal Agent to Be Bank Offering Highest Rate of Interest.) 

The fiscal agency or agencies with whom such funds shall 
be deposited shall be a. bank or banks, chartered under the laws 
of the State of Louisiana, or of the United States, and domi- 
ciled in this State, offering the highest rate of interest, consist- 
ent with the safety of such funds, upon the daily balances of 
the deposits so to be made and giving satisfactory security here- 
inafter mentioned. 

(Manner of Selecting Fiscal Agency for State, Parish and Municipal 
Funds.) 

Such fiscal agency or agencies shall be selected as follows : 
(1) As to funds belonging to or received in behalf of the 
State whether by the State Treasurer, or any sheriff or tax col- 
lector, the Board of Liquidation of the State Debt shall bien- 
nially for thirty days beginning on the first Monday in March. 
1908, advertise in the official journal of the State, and in one 
newspaper published in the cities of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, 
Shreveport, Alexandria, Monroe, Lake Charles, and New Iberia ; 
as to funds received by and in the hands of sheriffs and tax 
collectors, said Board shall advertise for a like period in the 



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same manner in one newspaper published in the parish where 
such collective officer exercises his. office, giving notice of the time 
and place of letting out of the State's deposits, the amount 
of security required, and inviting banks to bid for the custody 
thereof; provided that as to the funds in the hands of the State 
Treasurer, said advertisement shall be first made thirty days 
prior to the expiration of the present contract with the fiscal 
agents of the State, and the first letting shall be for a period ex- 
piring April, 1910. Should there be but one bank in any parish 
authorized hereunder to bid for the funds received by or m tne 
hands of any sheriff or tax collector, said Board is authorized to 
invite bids also from banks in contiguous parishes, when in their 
judgment deemed proper, otherwise bidders shall be limited to 
banks domiciled in said parish. As soon as possible after the 
expiration of the terms of advertisement herein fixed shall have 
expired, said Board shall meet at the capital and publicly open 
bids and make awards of said deposits as herein required. 

(2) As to funds belonging to or received in behalf of any par- 
ish or municipality of this State, the police jury or the munici- 
pal council shall at the same time, in the same manner and un- 
der the same regulations and penalties, as are provided for the 
control of the Board of Liquidation of the State Debt in refer- 
ence to funds received by and in the hands of sheriffs or tax 
collectors, advertise and let such funds; provided that said 
advertisement shall be for a period of fifteen days. 

(Boards, Etc., Manner of Selecting Fiscal Agency.) 

(3) As to funds belonging to or received by any public 
board, commissions or body created by any special or general 
act of the General Assembly of the State not held in the custody • 
or possession of the State Treasurer, such board, commission or 
body shall advertise and let the deposits to the bank or banks 
domiciled within the territorial jurisdiction of such board, com- 
mission or body, or in case such jurisdiction does not extend 
over an even parish, then to any bank in the parish, in the same 
manner, at the same time, and under the same regulations and 
penalties as are prescribed herein for funds of parishes and 
municipalities. 



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(4) As to the funds belonging to or received by any board, 
commission or body created ov controlled by any parochial or 
municipal government,^ the same shall be let as a part of the 
funds of such parish or municipality, and any interest earned 
thereon shall belong to the parish or municipality creating the 
same. 

(5) As to the funds deposited in the«registry of any court 
or coming into the hands of the clerk of court or sheriff in any 
judicial proceeding, and not belonging to such officer, the same 
shall be deposited in the fiscal agency awarded the custody of 
the funds of the parish, the Parish of Orleans excepted. In the 
Parish of Orleans, such funds shall be deposited in the bank or 
banks offering the highest rate of interest consistent with the 
safety of such funds, and giving security therefor, under such 
rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the judges of the 
Civil District Court. The interest thus earned shall accrue to the 
party or parties finally decreed to be entitled to the ownership 
of such funds. 

(All Bids to Be Sealed. Same.) 

Section 3. All bids shall be sealed and indorsed on the 
envelope '^ Fiscal Agency Bid," and addressed to the State Aud- 
itor or to the authority letting such deposits, as the case may be, 
and shall be kept sealed until the meeting of the authority to 
award said funds. 

(Penalty for Breaking Seal.) 

It is hereby declared a misdemeanor, punishable by fine not 
exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment not 
exceeding one year, or both at the discretion of the court, for any 
person prior to such meeting to break the seal of any envelope or 
covering enclosing such bid, or to examine the contents thereof. 

(When the Bids of T-wo Banks Are Equal.) 

Section 4. Where the bids of two or more banks are equal 
the award shall be made to such banks in such proportion as said 
banks may agree upon, and if they fail to agree, then in such 
proportion, giving each a share, as the aiithority letting same 
may determine. 



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(Compensation Calculated on Daily Balance.) 

Section 5. The compensation to be paid for deposits afore- 
said shall be calculated on the daily balances as shown by the 
books of the State Treasurer, or of the treasurer of the parish, 
municipality or body, as the case may be, and shall be paid on 
the first day of Janaury of each year ; provided that the author- 
ity letting the deposit may end the contract as to all or any - 
of such banks at any time, in the event that circumstances arise 
which in their opinion jeopardize the safety of such deposits, by 
giving thirty days ' notice in writing to the bank or banks holding 
such deposits, and all such deposits shall be forthwith returned 
%y such bank or banks upon the expiration of such period. And 
in case of such cancellation, the authority shall proceed as in case 
of original lettings or relet the deposits theretofore deposited with 
such bank or banks for the unexpired term of such contract. 

{Security Required.) 

Section 6. No funds of the State nor of any parish, munici- 
pality ,~ board, commission or body therein, shall be awarded to 
any bank or banks as aforesaid or deposited therein, unless and 
until such bank or banks shall have given the security provided 
in this section. The successful bidder or bidders shall as security 
for the safekeeping and return of said deposit, deposit with the 
State Treasurer, or with the fiscal officer of the authority letting 
such deposits, an amount of bonds of the United States or of 
the State (except Baby Bonds) or of any parish, city, town or 
levee district therein, equal to the estimated average deposits of 
such authority, as determined by the record of the year pre- 
vious, or shall have given bond with a duly authorized surety 
company as surety conditioned for the safe keeping and return 
of such deposits and the payment of the interest thereon in a 
like amount ; provided that no surety company shall be accepted 
as surety on any bond for a greater sum than ten per centum of 
its capital and surplus; and provided further that such bank 
or banks may deposit the bonds aforesaid for part of the se- 
eiu4ty and give surety bond for the balance in such proportion 
as it or they may see fit ; and provided further that where such 
deposits are divided between two or more banks, each may give 
security for its proportion of the total security required, based 
on the proportion of such deposits awarded to it. 



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(When Bonds Are Given as Security.) 

Section 7. Where any successful bidder or bidders shall elect 
to deposit as security the bonds of any political subdivision of 
the State, such bonds must have a market value of at least equal 
to the par value thereof, and in case such bonds should depre- 
ciate in value, the authority shall have the right at any time to 
demand additional security to make up the deficiency. If, at any 
time, any depositary bank fail or suspend, or fail on due demand 
without just cause to pay over such funds so deposited with it, 
the State Treasurer, on the direction of the Governor, or other 
fiscal officer, with whom any bonds may have been deposited as 
security, on the direction of the authority which made such let- 
ting, may forthwith, after ten days' advertisement in the news- 
paper or newspapers in which proposals for bids must be adver- 
tised for by such authority, sell such bonds, or a sufficient amount 
thereof to cover the deposit and accrued interest thereon, by auc- 
tion at the customary place where judicial sales are made in the 
parish where such securities are held. In case any surety com- 
pany given as surety should fail, cease to do business, or liquidate, 
a new security shall be substituted within' ten days from demand, 
else the contract for such deposits shall ipso facto terminate and 
a reletting of said deposits shall be made. 

In case of any such default on the part of any fiscal agency 
as aforesaid, when a surety bond has been given as security, 
and the said surety company shall have failed, within thirty days 
after demand upon it, to pay the amount of such deposit with 
the accrued interest thereon, the State Treasurer, by direction 
of the Governor, or the fiscal officer, on the direction of the au- 
thority that let such deposit, as the case may be, shall institute 
suit in the name of the State or such authority, as the case may 
be, against the principal and surety, or both of them, on such 
bond for the recovery of the amount of such deposits and ac- 
crued interest and a penalty of ten per centum on the amount so 
sued for together with costs. Such suit may be brought either 
at the designated domicile of the plaintiff or the defendant ; and 
in case of deficiency, the same shall be secured by first lien 
and privilege on all property and assets of said depositary. 



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(When Stale Borrows Money; Rate to Be Paid.) 

Section 8. In- case it should become necessary for the State 
to obtain advances of money, or for any of the other authorities 
to borrow money in cases permitted by law, the bank or banks 
awarded the contract as fiscal agent or agents, shall advance 
the same at a rate of interest no greater than that allowed on the 
said deposit ; provided, the amount so advanced shall not exceed 
the amount on deposit to the credit of the State or such au- 
thority. 

Section 9. "Wherever by any existing law or laws the deposit 
of the funds of any municipality, board, commission or body with 
any bank or banks paying the highest rate of interest consistent 
with the safety of such funds, and giving security therefor, is 
provided for, such law or laws shall remain in full force and 
effect and not be repealed or impaired hereby. Nor shall aiiy 
existing contracts made in pursuance of any such law or laws be 
affected or impaired hereby. Except as in this section provided, 
all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. 

(Grants and Reservations.) 

The lands granted in the States and reserved in the Territo- 
ries for educational purposes by Acts of Congress from 1785 to 
June 30, 1880, were : 

(For Public or Common Schools.) 

Every sixteenth section of public land in the States admitted 
to 1848, and every sixteenth and thirty-sixth section of such land 
in State and Territories since organized — estimated at 67,893,919 
acres. 

(For Seminaries or Universities.) 

The quantity of two townships, or 46,080 acres, in each 
State or Territory containing public land, and, in some instances, 
a greater quantity, for the support of seminaries or schools of a 
higher grade — estimated at 1.165,520 acres. 

(For Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges.) 

The grant to all the States for agricultural and mechanical 
colleges, by Act of July 2, 1862, and its supplements of 30,000 
"acres, for each Representative and Senator in Congress to which 
the State was entitled, of land "in place" where the State eon- 
tained a. sufficient quantity of public land subject to sale at or- 



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dinary private entry at the rate of $1.25 per acre, and of scrip 
representing an equal number of acres where the State did not 
contain such description of land, the scrip to be sold by the 
State and located by its assignees on any such land in other States 
and Territories, subject to certain restrictions. Land in place, 
1,770,000 acres ; land scrip, 7,830.000 ; total, 9,600,000 acres. 

In all, 78,659,439 acres for educational purposes under the 
heads above set out to June 30, 1880. 

The lands thus ceded to the several States were disposed of 
or are held for disposition, and the proceeds used as perma- 
nent endowments for common* school funds. (See Report of the 
Commissioner of Education, Hon. John Eaton, to June 30, 1880; 
land and auditors' reports for the several land States; Kiddle 
& Schem's Dictionary of Education; and also ninth census, 
i!. A. Walker, superintendent, for details of endowments of the 
several States for common schools resulting from the sales of 
United States land grants for education.) As an illustration, 
the State of Ohio has a permanent endowment for education, 
called the "Irreducible State Debt," the result of sale of all 
granted lands for education, of $4,289,718.52. 

(Price of Seminary Lands, S. 2954, R. S.) 

The price of the seminary lands shall hereaftei* be fixed at 
one dollar and twenty -five cents per acre. 

(Disposition of Funds of Towns on the Recision of Their Charters, S. 6, 
A. 173, '94.) 

If after paying all the debts of said town (upon the disso- 
lution and recision of its charter) there shall remain any balance 
of money, the same shall be turned over to the school board of 
the parish to be used in the education of the children of school 
age residing within the territory covered by said town. 

(Prescription of Debts, Etc., S. 8, A. 103, '80.) 

The term of prescription of any and all debts, due to any 
charitable institution in this StatQ, and to any college fund, or 
any fund of any institution of learning, or to any fund be- 
queathed for charitable purposes of education, and of all debts 
contracted by borrowing the whole or part of any such funds, 
shall be thirty years ; provided, the debt is evidenced in writing. 



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(Free/ School Fund, S. 2957, R. S.) 

The proceeds of all lands heretofore granted by the United 
States to this State for the use or support of schools except the 
sixteenth section in the various townships of the State specially- 
reserved by Congress for the use and benefit of the people 
therein; and all lands which may hereafter be granted or be- 
queathed to the State, and not specially granted or bequeathed 
for any other purpose, which hereafter may be disposed of by 
the State, and the ten per cent of the net proceeds of the sales 
of the public land and which have accrued and to accrue to this 
State under the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to appropriate 
tlie proceeds of the public lands," and to grant pre-emption 
rights, approved September 4, 1841 ; and the proceeds of the 
estates of deceased persons, to which the State has or may become 
entitled by law, shall be held by the State as a loan, and shall 
be and remain a perpetual fund, to be called the Free School 
Fund, on which the State shall pay an annual interest of six 
per cent ; which interest, together with the interest of the Trust 
Fund deposited Avith this State by the United States, under the 
act of Congress approved the 23d of June, 1836, with the rents 
of aU unsold lands, except that of the sixteenth sections, shall 
be appropriated for the support of public schools in this State; 
and donations of all kinds which shall be made for the support of 
schools, and such other means which the Legislature may from 
time to time set apart for school purposes, shall form a part of 
the fund, and shall also be a loan on which the State shall pay 
an interest of six per cent per annum. 

It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the State to apply 
annually, and to receive from the General Government, the said 
ten per cent of moneys now due and to become due to this State, 
and to place the same, when received, to the credit of the proper 
fund, and to report thereon to. each session of the General As- 
sembly. 

(Special Sources of Revenue.) 

1. Act 85 of '94. — Residue from sale of unclaimed merchan- 
dise in warehouse. 

2. Act 124 of '90. — Residue from sale of unclaimed freight 
in railroad warehouse. 



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3. Act 124 (Sees. 1 and 7), '02.— Proceeds from sale of 
"Islands other than sea marsh islands." 

4. See S. 2957, R. S.— From "Land Grants" other than the 
sixteenth section. 

5. Acts 39, 177, '02.— From sale of ' ' Internal Improvement ' ' 
Swamp Indemnity Lands and Certificates. 

6. Act 180 of 1902. 

7. All fines and forfeited bonds. 

8. See Act 27, '75. — Fine for violation of laws relative to 
inquests, etc. 

9. Reeision of town charters, S. 6, A. 173 of 1894. 

10. Donations. 

11. Fees. 

12. Inheritance tax. 

13. State appropriation for high and agricultural schools. 

14. Special school tax. 

(Agriculture and Home Economics to Be Taught in Schools, A. 306, '10.) 

In addition to the branches in which instruction is now given 
in the public schools of the State of Louisiana, instruction shall 
also be given in all the elementary and secondary' schools of the 
State in the principles of agriculture or horticulture and in 
home and farm economy. . 

(Spitting on Schoolhouse Floor Prohibited, S. 1, A, 91, '08.) 

Any person who shall spit upon the floor or walls of any 
passenger car, street car, depot or waiting room, courthouse, 
ehurchhouse, schoolhouse, or any other public building whatever, 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall 
be fined in a sum not less than Five (5) Dollars, nor more than 
Twenty-five ($25) Dollars, and in default of payment of fine 
and costs, shall be imprisoned in the parish jail for a period 
not exceeding ten days. 

(Providing That the Doors of School Houses Shall Swing Outward, 
A. 91, '08.) 

Section 1. All doors for ingress and egress to public school- 
houses, churches, courthouses, assembly rooms, halls, theatres, 
factories with more than twenty employees and of all other 
buildings of public resort whatever, where people are wont to 
assemble, shall be so swung as open outwardly from the audi- 



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ence rooms, classrooms, halls, or workshops; but such doors 
may be hung on double- jointed hinges, so as to open with equal 
ease outwardly or inwardly. 

Section 2. The provisions of this Act shall apply to all 
buildings and houses within its terms, erected after its passage, 
from the date it becomes in force. As to all such buildings and 
houses heretofore erected, said provisions shall be applied from 
and after the expiration of six months from the date when this 
Act becomes operative. 

Section 3. The president of the parish school board, the 
deacons, the stewards or managers of any church, the presi- 
dent of the parish police jury, or the owner of any hall, theatre, 
or factory, failing to comply with the provisions of this Act 
or ^to have same complied, with as relates to any building or 
buildings under the control of the bodies over which they pre- 
side or of which they are a member, or to such building or build- 
ings owned by them, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
conviction shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than 
one hundred dollars, and upon failure to pay such fine and costs 
shall be imprisoned in the parish jail for a period not exceeding 
ninety (90) days. 

Sectibn 4. Provided that this Act shall not apply to facto- 
ries, cotton seed oil mills and other like establishments where the 
doors for the purpose of protection against fire, are so arranged 
as to slide back and forth on rollers. 

(Exemptions From Jury Duty, S. 2, A. 89, '94.) 

The following persons shall be exempted from serving as 
jurors, but the exemption shall be personal to them, and when 
they do not themselves claim the exemption it shall not be suf- 
ficient cause for challenging any person exempt under the pro- 
visions of this Act. * * * The Governor, Lieutenant Gov. 
ernor, State Auditor, State Treasurer, Secretary of State, Su- 
perintendent of Public Education, their clerks and employees, 
and all public officers commissioned under the authority of the 
United States. * * * professors and school teachers while 
employed in teaching. * * * 



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(School Libraries Established, A. 202, '06.) 

Whenever the patrons and friends of any individual school 
or grade of the free public schools in which a library has not 
already been established by the aid of the parish board of school 
directors, shall raise by private subscription or otherwise and ten- 
der to the treasurer of the parish public school funds for the es- 
tablishment of a library to be connected with such school or grade, 
the sum of ten dollars, and the parish treasurer has so advised 
the secretary of the parish board of school directors, the said 
board at its next quarterly meeting shall appropriate from the 
public school funds the sum of ten dollars for this purpose, 
and shall appoint the teacher in charge of said school or grade 
the manager of such libraries; provided further, that at times 
other than during the school term, the library shall be kept in 
a locked case provided for under this Act. 

(Duty of Parish Treasurer and Secretary of School Board.) 

Section 2. That as soon as the secretary of the parish board of 
school directors shall have received notice from the treasurer of 
the parish public school funds (and said notice should be served 
by the said treasurer within five days after receipt of same) that a 
donation for a library for a certain school or grade has been made, 
the secretary shall inform the State Superintendent of Public Ed- 
ucation of the fact, whereupon the said Superintendent shall fur- 
nish the said secretary a list of public school library books and 
prices therefor, said books and prices having been approved 
by the State Board of Education. 

(IVIanner of Selecting Books.) 

Section 3. That within five days after the parish board of 
school directors shall have made an appropriation for a library, 
the president and secretary of the board, with the assistance of 
the teacher in charge of the school or grade for which the appro- 
priation Avas made, shall select from the aforesaid approved list 
of books for public school libraries a list of books to be purchased 
for the said library, and shall submit a list of books to be pur- 
chased to the secretary of- the board, who shall order the books at 
once, and payment for same shall be made by warrant upon the 
treasurer of the parish public school funds signed by the presi- 
dent and secretary of the parish board of school directors. 



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(Duty of School Bof&rd to Furnish Book Case.) 

Upon application of the parish superintendent, the parish 
board of school directors shall furnish, to each library, at the 
expense of the public school funds, a neat bookcase, with lock 
and key. 

(Local Madayer to Obsetve Rules and Regulations; Report to State 

Superintenclent.) 

The local manager of every library shall carry out such rules 
and regulations for the proper use and preservation of the 
books as may be established by the State Superintendent of 
Public Education, and shall on or before the tenth day of 
January of each year make to the State Superintendent of Pub- 
lic Education such report as he may require. 

(Duty of School Board When Second Appropriation Is Made After One 
Year; Subsequent Appropriations Limited to One Per Year.) 

Section 5. When the patrons and friends of any individual 
school or grade of the public school in which a library has been 
established for one year under the preceeding sections of this 
Act, shall raise by private subscription or otherwise and tender 
to the treasurer of the parish school funds the sum of five dol- 
lars for the enlargement of the library, the parish board of 
school directors shall appropriate from the money belonging to 
that school or grade not less than the sum of five dollars nor 
more than fifteen dollars. The money thus collected and appro- 
priated shall be used for the enlargement of libraries already 
established under the same rules and restrictions as govern the 
establishment of new libraries; provided that no more than one 
such appropriation shall be made each year for each school or 
grade. 

(Legal Ownership to Rennain in Parish School Board.) 

Section 6. The legal possession and ownership of the books, 
cases and other appendages of the school or grade library, shall 
be and remain in the parish board of school directors and their 
successors in office, and that the felonious destruction or taking 
and carrying away thereof, or any part thereof, or any books, 
article, apparatus or furniture from or belonging to any public 
school house owned or used for public school purposes shall 
and is hereby declared to be larceny, and the breaking into such 



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schoolhouse at night with intent to commit larceny, as herein set 
forth, or any felony, shall and is hereby declared to be burglary, 
and that any larceny or burglary so committed shall be punished 
as in other cases under existing statutes. 

(Object of the Institution, A. 145, 77.) 

The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Me- 
chancial College, as hereinafter created, shall have for its ob- 
ject to become an institution of learning, in the broadest and 
highest sense, where literature, science and all the arts may be 
taught; where the principles of truth and honor may be estab- 
lished, and a noble sense of personal and patriotic and religious 
duty inculcated; in fine, to fit the citizen to perform justly, 
skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and 
public, of peace and war. 

(General Instruct ion, A. 145, 77.) 

The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechan- 
ical College, as hereinbefore created, shall provide general in^ 
struction and education in all the departments of literature, 
science, art, and industrial and professional pursuits; and it 
shall provide special instruction for the purpose of agriculture, 
the mechanic arts, mining, military, science and art, civil engi- 
neering, law, medicine, commerce and navigation. 

Note. — See L. S. U. catalogue for degrees conferred. 
(Branches to Be Taught, A. 145, 77.) i 

There shall be maintained in the Louisiana State University 
and Agricultural and Mechancial College, as hereinbefore con- 
stituted and established: 

First — Schools of literature, including the languages of the 
principal nations of ancient and modern times, philosophy, logic, 
rhetoric and elocution, history, ethics, metaphysics and such 
other and special branches of learning as the board of super- 
visors may determine. 

Second — Schools of science, including mathematics, astron- 
omy, engineering, architecture, drawing, physics, chemistry, 
botany, zoology, agriculture, mechanics, mining, navigation and 
commerce and such other special branches of learning as the 
board of supervisors may determine. 



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Third — Schools of the useful and fine arts, and of military 
science and art. 

Fourth — Schools of medicine and law. 

Fifth — Such other schools as the board of supervisors may 
establish. 

(Affiliation With Any Incorporated institution, A. 145, 77.) 

The board of supervisors may affiliate ^\ath the Louisiana 
State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College any 
incorporated universitj^ or college, or school of medicine, law 
or other special course of instruction, upon such terms as may 
be deemed expedient ; and such university, college or school 
may retain the control of its own property, have its own board 
of trustees, faculties and president respectively; and the stu- 
dents of such universities, colleges or schools recommended by 
the respective faculties thereof, may receive from the Louisiana 
State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College the 
degrees of those universities, colleges or schools, and the said 
students of learning or special schools, thus graduated, shall 
rank as graduates of the Louisiana State University and Agricul- 
tural and Mechanical College. 

(Beneficiary Cadets.) 

Each parish, as now created, or that may hereafter be created 
in the State, shall have the right to delegate to the Louisiana 
State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College one 
beneficiary cadet, and the City of New Orleans shall have the 
right to delegate to said institution seventeen beneficiary cadets ; 
or one from each ward of said city, said beneficiaries to re- 
main at said institution four years, unless sooner graduated 
or otherwise discharged; provided, that no beneficiary cadet 
shall be permitted to resign from said institution, without the 
consent of the board of supervisors thereof, which consent shall 
be given only in case of urgent necessity, such as serious and 
long' protracted ill health, duly declared by the certificate of 
the surgeon of said institution, or other competent physician, 
be of such a nature as to render it impossible for said cadet to 
pursue his studies witli advantage. 



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(Police Juries and City Councils to Elect Beneficiaries.) 

The police jury of each parish and the city courrcil of New 
Orleans, respectively, may at a regular meeting elect the num- 
ber of beneficiary cadets to which said parish or city is entitled 
as aforesaid, of such age and qualifications as may be prescribed 
by the board of supervisors for admission to the college classes 
of said University and Agricultural and Mechanical College; 
and shall cause the beneficiary so selected to report in person 
at said institution on or before said 5th day of October; pro- 
vided, that said beneficiary cadet shall be selected from the 
number of those residents of said parish or of said city,, who 
have not themselves, nor their parents, the means of defraying 
the whole of their necessarj' expenses and maintenance and 
support of said institution, which facts shall be duly certified 
to the president of said institution, by the president of said police 
jury, or said city council of New Orleans, as true, to the best 
of his knowledge and belief. 

(Authority of the Police Juries, and City Council of New Orleans to 
Appropriate Funds for Beneficiaries.) 
For maintenance and board of said beneficiaries in said insti- 
tution, the police juries of the several parishes and the city 
council of the City of New Orleans, be and are hereby author- 
ized and empowered to appropriate out of their respective treas- 
uries, a sufficient sum to defray the necessary expenses of said 
cadets as appointed under the provisions of this act; provided, 
that the expense of no cadet shall exceed two hundred and fifty 
dollars (.$250) per annum; provided, that under no circustances 
shall any part of this sum be paid by the State. 

(Recognition of the Degrees Conferred, A. 93, '08.) 

That all diplomas or degrees, whether literary or scientific, 
academic or professional, granted by the Board of Supervisors 
of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechan- 
ical College upon the recommendation of the faculty of said insti- 
tution shall be recognized by the courts and other officials of 
Louisiana as entitling the graduates holding said diplomas or 
degrees to the same rights, immunities and privileges in the State 
of Louisiana as the diplomas or degrees of any other institution 
of learning whatsoever. 



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(Benefits of the Carnegie Fund Allowed, A. 219, '08.) 

That the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State Univer- 
adfy and Agricultural and Mechanical College is hereby author- 
ized to accept the offer of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie 
Foundation to admit State universities to the benefits of the retir- 
ing allowance system of said Foundation. 

(Authority to Charge Tuition Fees, A. 227, '08.) 

That Section 1 of Act No. 152 of 1902, entitled "An Act 
authorizing the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State 
University and Agricultural and Mechanical College to deter- 
'mine the fees of students or cadets," shall be amended and re- 
enacted so as to read as follows : 

Section 1. That the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana 
State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College shall 
have power and authority to determine what fees and other 
charges shall be paid by students or cadets; provided, that no 
fee for tuition shall be charged to any student or cadet who is 
a bona fide resident of the State of Louisiana unless said student 
or cadet be pursuing a special graduate, or professional course 
of study. 

(Establishing a Chair of Forestry, A. 242, '08.) 

That it is hereby made the duty of the Board of Super- 
visors of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and 
Mechanical College at Baton Rouge, La., to establish and main- 
tain a Chair of Forestry in said University for the purpose of 
teaching the care, protection and conservation of the forests of 
this State. 

(Object; to Whom Open, S. 1, A. 73, '92.) 

(State Normal School, Act 73, '92; A. 61, '86; A. 23, '88; 
A. 70, '02; A. 91, '96; A. 158, '02; A. 51, '84. See Constitu- 
tion, '98.) 

The State Normal School, located at Natchitoches, in the Par- 
ish of Natchitoches, in conformity with Sections 4 and 8 of Act 
No. 51 of 1884, shall have for its object to train teachers for the 
public schools of Louisiana, and shall be open to white persons 
of either sex or age and qualifications as may be hereinafter 
prescribed. 



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(Departments and Classes, S. 6, A. 73, '92.) 

The State Normal School shall contain two departments, the 
Normal Department and the Practice School. The course of 
study of the Normal Department may extend over a period of 
four years, and shall embrace thorough instruction and training 
in the history and science of education, the theory and practice 
of teaching, the organization and government of schools and 
such other branches of knowledge as may be deemed necessar}^ to 
fit the students for the varied work of a complete system of public 
achools. The Practice Schools shall consist of such grades or 
classes, with such course of study, as the Board of Administra- 
tors may deem useful in giving the Normal students the neces- 
sary practice in the art of teaching. 

(Qualifications for Admission, S. 7, A, 73, '92.) 

Applicants for admission to the Normal Department must 
be at least fifteen years of age if female, and sixteen years of 
age if male ; must give satisfactory evidence of good moral char- 
acter and of requisite proficiency in the ordinary branches of a 
good common school education; and must declare in writing 
their full intention of continuing in the school until graduation, 
unless sooner discharged, and of teaching in the public schools 
of Louisiana for at least one year after graduation. 

(Tuition Free, Except in Some Instances, S. 8, A. 73, '92.) 

Tuition shall be free to all students of the Normal Depart- 
ment who fulfill all the requirements imposed by Section 7 of 
this Act, and to the pupils of the primary grades of the Practice 
School. All other students shall be charged such fees for tui- 
tion as may be prescribed by the board of administrator. 

(Beneficiary Students to State Schools, A. 153, '02.) 

Each police jury of the several parishes of the State shall 
have the right to delegate to the Louisiana Industrial Institute 
at Ruston, or the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute 
at Lafayette or the State Normal School, one (1) female student, 
and the City of New Orleans shall have the right to delegate 
to said institutions one female student from each ward of said 
city, said beneficiaries to remain at said institutions until grad- 
uated or otherwise discharged; provided no beneficiary shall he 



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permitted to resign without the consent of the board of super- 
visors of the institute, which consent shall be given only in case 
of urgent necessity such as serious or long protracted ill health, 
duly declared by certificate of the physician of such institute or 
other competent physician, to be of such nature as to render it 
impossible for said student to pursue her studies with advantage. 

Section 2. That the police jury of each parish and the city 
council of New Orleans, respectively, may at a regular meeting 
select said beneficiaries subject to and after competitive examina- 
tion and of such age and qualifications as is prescribed by the 
.rules of such institutions ; provided said beneficiaries shall be 
residents of such parish or wards who have not themselves nor 
have their parents the means of defraying the whole of the neces- 
sary expenses of maintenance and support at said institute, which 
fact shall be duly certified to by the president of the police jury 
of said city. 

Section 3. That for the maintenance and board of said bene- 
ficiaries at said institutes, the police jury of the several parishes 
and the city council of New Orleans be, and are hereby, author- 
ized and empowered to appropriate out of their respective treas- 
uries a sufficient sum to defray the necessary expenses of said 
students as appointed under provisions of this act; provided 
the expense of no beneficiary shall exceed two hundred and fifty 
dollars ($250) per annum. 

(State Normal School Diplomas, A. 91, '96.) 

The Board of Administrators of the State Normal School is 
hereby empowered to confer diplomas upon all graduates of 
said school. This diploma shall entitle the holder to a first grade 
teacher's certificate without examination, and shall be valid in 
any part of the State for four years from the date of gradua- 
tion, after the expiration of which time it may be renewed every 
four years, for the same period, by said Board of Administrators 
upon satisfactory evidence of the ability, progress and moral 
character of the teacher making application for such renewal. 
Furthermore, the diploma of the State Normal School shall en- 
title its holder to such degree of preference in the selection of 
teachers for the. public schools of the State as may be deemed 
wise and expedient by the State Board of Education. 



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(Industrial College; Object; Location; Privilege, A. 68, '94.) 

Louisiana Industrial Institute, Act 68, '94; A. 158, '02; 
See Constitution '98.) 

An Industrial Institute and College is hereby established 
for the education of the white children of the State of Louisiana 
in the arts and sciences. Said Institute shall be known as ''The 
Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana," and shall be 
located at Ruston, Lincoln Parish, La., provided said town and 
parish shall donate ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to said Insti- 
tute, and the same shall be organized as hereinafter provided. 
(See Constitution '98.) 

(Branches to Be Taught, A. 68, '94.) 

The said board of trustees shall possess all the power neces- 
sary and proper for the accomplishment of the trust reposed in 
them, viz : The establishment of a first-class Industrial Institute 
and College for the education of the white children of Louisiana 
in the arts and sciences, at which such children may acquire a 
thorough academic and literary , education, together with a 
knowledge of kindergarten instruction, of telegraphy, stenog- 
raphy and photography, of drawing, painting, designing and 
engraving in their industrial application; also a knowledge of 
fancy, practical and general needle work; also a knowledge of 
bookkeeping and agricultural and mechanical arts, together with 
such other practical industries as from time to time may be 
suggested to them by experience, or such as will tend to promote 
the general objects of said Institute and College, to-wit : Fitting 
and preparing such children, male and female, for the practical 
industries of the age. 

(Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute, A. 162 
'98; A. 158, '02. 

A State Industrial Institute is hereby established for the 
education of the white children of the State of Louisiana in the 
arts and sciences. 

Said Institute shall be known as the ' ' Southwestern Louisiana 
Industrial Institute, ' ' and shall be located in that parish of the 
13th Senatorial District which will offer the best inducement 
therefor to the Board of Trustees, said location to be made by 



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the Board to be appointed under this Act, provided that the 
parish selected for the location of said Institution shall donate 
not less than twenty-five acres of land and five thousand dollars 
to said Institution, and the same shall be organized as herein- 
after provided; provided further, that in case two or more of 
said parishes offer the same inducements then the Board of 
Trustees shall select, by majority vote, the most suitable loca- 
tion and make report thereof to the General Assembly of the 
State of Louisiana, at its next session, together with such recom- 
mendations as may be conducive to the best interests of said 
institution, 

(Branches Taught, Etc.) ^ 

The Board of Trustees shall possess all the powers necessary 
and proper for the accomplishment of the trust reposed in them, 
viz : The establishment of a first-class Industrial Institute for the 
education of the white children of Louisiana in the arts and 
sciences, at which such children may acquire a thorough academic 
and literary education, together with a knowledge of kinder- 
garten instruction, of telegraphy, stenography and photography, 
or drawing, painting, designing and engraving in their indus- 
trial applications ; also a knowledge of fancy, practical and gen- 
eral needle-work; also a knowledge of bookkeeping and agri- 
cultural and mechancial art together with such other practical 
industries as from time to time, may be suggested to them by 
experience, or such as will tend to promote the general object 
of said Institute, to-wit: Fitting and preparing such children, 
male and female, for practical industries of life. 

(Louisiana State School for the Blind, A. 92, '71; A. 
49, '88 ; A. 145, '98, amended by A. 238, '08 ; A. 166, '98 ; A. 
196, '02.) 

There shall be established and maintained, in the town of 
Baton Rouge, an institution for the education of the blind, to be 
known as the "Louisiana State School for the Blind." 

(Objects of the Institution.) 

' They shall receive, instruct and support in the Institution 
all persons blind, or of such defective vision as not to be able 
to acquire an education in the ordinary schools, between the 



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ages of seven uud twenty-two years, of sound mind and propei 
health of body, and residents of the state. Such persons shall 
receive instructions and be provided with board, lodging, medi- 
cine and medical attendance at the expense of the institution 
and if in such indigent circumstances as to render it necessary, 
shall also be furnished with clothing and traveling expenses to 
and from the Institution upon a certificate to that effect from 
the president of the police jury 6f the parish, or the mayor of 
the city or town, in which they reside. 

(How Long Pupils May Remain.) 

Persons admitted as pupils under fourteen years of age may 
continue in the institution ten years; if over fourteen and un- 
der seventeen years of age, they may continue eight years; and 
if over seventeen years of age, they may continue five years; 
provided the board may in any case extend the term two years. 

(Institution for the Exclusive Use of the Deaf and Dumb.) 

(Louisiana State School for the Deaf, A. 88, '71 ; A. 166, 
'98, amended by Act 239, '08 ; A. 196, '02. See Constiutioii '98:) 

The institution heretofore known as the Louisiana Institution 
for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, located at Baton Rouge, 
in this state, be and tlie same is liereby reorganized by the pro- 
visions of this act for the exclusive benefit of the deaf and du; b. 
' That there sliall be established and maintained, in the towf.jof 
Baton Rouge, an institution for the education of the deaf ^ and 
duml), to be known as tlic "Louisiana State School for the D-faf^^' 

(Admission of Pupils, A. 166, '98.) ^' " 

They shall receive, instruct and support in the institut m all 
persons deaf and dumb, or of such defective speech or hearing as 
not to be able to acquire an education in the ordinary scliools, 
between the ages of eight and twenty-two years, of sound mind 
and proper liealth of body, and residents of tlie State. Such 
persons shall receive instruction and be provided with l)oard, 
lodging, medicine and medical attendance at the expense of the 
institution, and if in such indigent circumstances as to render 
it necessary, shall also be furnished with clothing and traveling 
expenses to and. from the Institution, upon a certificate to that 
effect from the president of the Police Jury of tjie parish, or 
the mayor of the city, or town, in which they reside. 



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(Age of Admission.) 

The persons admitted as pupils under fourteen years of age, 
may continue in the institution ten years; if over fourteen and 
under seventeen years of age, they may continue eight years; 
if over seventeen years of age, they may continue five years; 
provided, the board may in any case extend the term two years. 

(Branches Taught.) 

The institution shall provide all the requisite facilities for 

acquiring a good literary education, instruction in hygiene and 

physical culture and an industrial department in which instruc- 

"tion shall be given in such trades as may be best suited to render 

the pupils self-sustaining citizens. 

DECISIONS OF SUPREI\rE COURT. 

(School Boards Not Required to Apportion School Funds.) 

The repeal (of Sec. 7, Act 81 of 1888, providing for the ap- 
portionment of school funds) is express, because Act 214 of 
1902 repeals all laws in conflict ; and this provision for appor- 
tionment is in conflict with the provisions making it obligatory 
upon the School Boards to "determine the number of schools 
to be opened, the location of the schoolhouses, the number of 
te 'hers to be employed, and their salaries." The latter pro- 
vis m invests the School Board with absolute discretion in the 
matter of what number of schools there shall be, and what 
rammer of teachers and what their salaries shall be. For the 
exv ■. e of this discretion, a discretionary control of the school 
funa.fiis absolutely necessary; because schools cannot be estab- 
lishe<'' and maintained without funds. Discretionary control of 
the one, necessarily carries with it discretionary control of the 
other. (State ex rel. J. W. Martin et all ys. Webster Parish 
School Board. May 23, 1910.) 

(Discipline.) 

Moderate restraint and correction of a pupil by a teacher is 
not an offense, but is authorized by law, and the authority of 
the teacher is not limited to the time the pupil is at the school- 
room or vmder the actual control of the teacher. (Bolding vs. 
Texas, 4S. W., 579.) 



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"The teacher is loco parentis, and authority is necessarily 
surrendered to him for proper government of the school." (Mor- 
row vs. Wood, American Law Register, N. S. X. 3, 692.) 

Relative to punishment, the calm and honest judgment of the 
teacher, as to the requirement, should have great weight in mat- 
ters of discipline as in the case of a parent under similar circum- 
stances. (American Law Register, Van Vacter vs. State; July 
number, 1888. Discipline in School.) 

It is the duty of a teacher to maintain proper discipline in 
school, and the extent of his authority in that direction is dis- 
cussed. (Law Register, N. S. Vol. XIII, p. 716.) 

(District Attorneys Not Entitled to 20 Per C»nt Commission on Fines.) 

Syllabus: Whilst it is well settled that repeals by im- 
plication are not favored, it is equally well settled that, in deter- 
mining whether one law conflicts with another, it is necessary 
to consider the purposes of both, and if it appears that the pur- 
pose of the law last enacted is to cover the whole subject matter 
dealt with by and to modify or supercede those previously en- 
acted, their modification or supersession results and must be 
declared. 

2. The purpose of Act No. 96 of 1880 was to deal with the 
whole subject of the duties and compensation of district attor- 
neys, and whilst there may have been some provisions of the then 
existing law which escaped its operation, it so modified and 
superceded that law as to preclude any recovery by the district 
attorneys of the one-fifth part of~the fines imposed, after deduct- 
ing the commission of the sheriff, in addition to the fee provided 
by section 3 of said act. 

3. Articles 125 and 180 of the Constiution, whether taken 
separately or together, are not susceptible of the construction 
that they intend to allow district attorneys to collect commis- 
sions, as contradistinguished from fees, or fees, save as pro- 
vided for by the Constitution itself. 

It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judg- 
ment of the Court of Appeal which is here made the subject of 
review be annulled; that the judgment of the District Court, 
which was thereby affirmed, be likewise annulled, avoided and 
reversed, and that relator's demand be rejected and this pro-^ 



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ceeding dismissed at his cost. (State ex rel. Edwin Broussard, 
District Attorney, vs. George Henderson, Sheriff, 120. Ann. 535.) 

(Taxes Collected for School Purposes Must Be Turned Over to School 
Board.) 

Taxes collected for school purposes should be turned over 
to the school board from time to time as received. (Parish 
Board of School Directors of Iberia Parish vs. Police Jury of 
Iberia Parish, 123d Ann., 416.) 

(Property Exempt From Taxation by Constitution Also Exempt From 
Special School Tax.) 

The special school tax authorized by Constitution Art. 232, 
is not a special assessment, and property exempt from taxation 
by the Constitution is not subject to it. (Louisiana & N. W. R. 
R. Co. vs. State Board of Appraisers, 120th Ann., 471.) 

(Members of Partnership Entitled to Vote Upon Firm's Assessment in 
Special Tax Elections.) 

Individual members of a partnership held entitled to vote 
upon the firm's assessment in a special tax election held under 
Constitution Art. 232. (Smith vs. Parish Board of School Direc- 
tors, 125th Ann., 987.) 

(Persons Not Entitled to Vote Upon Assessment of Property Sold.) 

A person appearing as owner of property on the assessment 
rolls, but who has sold it when an election was held under 
Constitution Art. 232, held not entitled to vote thereat. (Smith 
vs. Parish Board of School Directors, 125th Ann., 987.) 

(Special Tax Not Set Aside by Legal Votes Cast Without Proper Evi- 
dence.) 

A special tax election under Constitution Art. 2S2, held not 
to be set aside because the commissioner of election received votes 
without proper evidence, where such votes were legal. (Smith 
vs. Parish Board of School Directors, 125th Ann., 987.) 

(Right of Widows to Vote Community Property.) 

To entitle widows to vote at a special tax election held under 
Constitution Art. 232, as owners of community property, their 
rights must clearly appear by judgment or order of court. 
(Smith vs. Parish Board of School Directors, 125th Ann., 987.) 



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(School Houses, as Such, Built by Means of Special Tax, Can Not Be 
Converted Into Theatre.) 

Citizens who have voted to tax themselves for a specific work 
of public improvement, the value of which is fixed at $20,000, 
have a standing in court to complain that the property acquired 
is not being used for the purpose contemplated, and this court, 
in such case, has jurisdiction of the appeal. "Where a vote 
has been taken upon a proposition to impose a tax to build a 
echoolhouse; and has been favorably acted on, and a building 
has been constructed with the proceeds of bonds predicated upon 
such a tax, it would be a breach of faith to allow such building 
to be converted into a theatre, or to be used for. the purpose of 
giving theatrical performances, as a business, whether in combi- 
nation with its use for school purposes or otherwise. It is, 
however, within the discretion of the municipal authorities hav- 
ing control of the property to make such casual and incidental use 
of it as may not be inconsistent with or prejudicial to, the main 
purpose for which it was acquired; and changed conditions, in 
the future, may justify its use for some other purpose. (Sugar 
vs. City of Monroe, 108th Ann., 677.) 

SANITARY REGULATIONS OF THE LOUISIANA STATE 

BOARD OF HE2.LTH, CONCERNING HYGIENE 

AND SANITATION OF SCHOOLS. 

Sanitary Code, State op Louisiana, Section 250. 

Note.— By Act 192 of 1S98 the State Board of Health is authorized to 
enact regulations which are binding upon the public. 

(Parish Board and Superintendent to Enforce Rules and Regulations.) 

The parish or municipal school board, and the parish super- 
intendent of schools, shall be held responsible for the execution 
and enforcement of the following rules and regulations, and all 
other health laws governing the hygiene of the schoolroom and the 
premises of the schools under their respective jurisdictions. 

(Plans for Schoolhouses to Be Submitted to State Superintendent, Par- 
ish Superintendent and Parish Health Officer.) 

Plans and specifications for every schoolhouse hereafter 
erected in the State must be submitted to the parish superin- 
tendent of schools, and to the State Superintendent of Educa- 



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tion, and also to the parish health otBcer, that it may be deter- 
mined whether every hygienic or necessary provision is made, es- 
pecially with reference to ventilatioii, light and protection 
against fire. 

(Regulating Ventilation and Light.) 

Every schoolhouse, public or private, or other building used 
for school purposes, shall be ventilated in such manner as to 
afford eighteen hundred cubic feet of air per hour for each 
adult, and a proportionate amount for each child, and shall 
contain not less than two hundred cubic feet of air space for 
' each child to be taught therein. Windows and transoms shall 
be so constructed that windows may be lowered from the top 
and transoms opened. Every schoolhouse must be lighted in 
such a manner as to minimize the eye strain. Each room must 
contain of actual surface of glass in the windows not less than 
one-seventh of the floor space. 

(Regulating the Swinging of Doors.) 

All doors except those which slide into wall pockets shall 
open outward and all partition doors shall be hung on double- 
action hinges. 

(Governing the Treatment and Sweeping of Floors and Wiping of Fur- 
niture, Etc.) 

The floors of every school must be treated with some antiseptic 
floor dressing. Applications to be at sufficiently frequent inter- 
vals to keep down effectually the dust; floors to be scrubbed 
thoroughly before each application. Floor dressing for use in 
the schools must be approved by the State analyst. 

The floors of every school must be swept daily, sweeping 
to be done after all pupils have left the building. All windows 
must be thrown open and schoolhouse thoroughly aired after 
cleaning. 

All desks, wainscoting, window sills and baseboards in every 
schoolhouse in the State must be wiped off daily with a cloth 
moistened with 1-2000 bichloride of mercury, or 3 per cent car- 
bolic acid solution. 

(Spitting on Floors Strictly Prohibited.) 

Spitting on floors, walls, etc., must be strictly prohibited and 
anti-spitting placards placed in every room. 



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(Teachers Must Furnish Health Certificates.) 

No person suffering from any communicable disease shall be 
employed as teacher or janitor in any public school in this State. 
At the opening of each annual term teachers must furnish a 
health certificate from a registered physician, addressed to the 
parish superintendent of schools, certifying that they are not 
suffering from tuberculosis or other communicable disease. 

(Vaccination Required of Pupils.) 

No one shall be entered as a pupil in the public schools of 
this State without first having presented to the principal in 
charge a certificate from a registered physician of Louisiana, 
certifying that within the preceding five years the applicant 
was successfully vaccinated. 

Three unsuccessful attempts at vaccination with a proven 
virus shall be accepted as an immunity for a period of one year. 

Pupils are required, at the end of each five years, to renew 
their vaccination certificates. 

(Pupils Suffering With Communicable Disease to Be Excluded.) 

No pupil suffering from any communicable disease shall be 
permitted to attend the public schools of this State. The prin- 
cipal or the teacher has the right to exclude any child from the 
schools whom they suspect of suffering from any communicable 
disease, pending examination and report of a registered phy- 
sician. 

(Schoolhouses to Be Disinfected.) 

All schoolrooms in the State must be disinfected before the 
beginning of each school session, with the formaldehyde-per- 
manganate of potash mixture as indicated in the bulletin of 
disinfection. 

(On Appearance of Communicable Diseases, Schools Must Be Closed.) 

On the appearance in a school of any communicable disease, 
either among the pupils, teachers or attendants, the school shall 
be closed immediately and fumigated before reopening. 

(School Premises Shall Be Drained.) 

The school premises shall be thoroughly drained and no 
stagnant water permitted to collect. In towns with a drainage 
system or where an outflow is possible, the school site and the 



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entire area of the ground shall be properly drained, so as to 
reduce the ground water level, and the drainage effected in 
such a manner as not to contaminate with its effluvia any well, 
cistern or other source of drinking water. 

(Abundant Supply of Pure Drinking Water.) 

Every school must be supplied with an abundance of pure 
drinking water for drinking purposes. Where water is used 
from surface wells, said wells must be located at least 100 feet 
from any closet. 

(Open Receptacles for Water and Common Cups Prohibited.) 

The use of open receptacles for drinking water in schools, 
and also of dippers or cups for common drinking purposes, is 
prohibited. The school authorities must supply for holding 
drinking water covered containers with faucets, which containers 
must be scoured daily when in use. All teachers and pupils 
must provide themselves with individual drinking cups or glasses. 
In towns or cities where there is a public water supply a sanitary 
drinking fountain shall be installed. 

(Garbage Can Required; Emptied Daily.) 

Every school in this State must have a sufficient number of 
trash or garbage cans for the convenience of the pupils, teachers 
and emploj'ees, and said trash or garbage cans must be kept 
closed, and emptied daily. 

(Stiles Sanitary Closet Compulsory.) 

The urinals and water closets must be connected with the 
sewerage system, where one exists, when within 1,000 feet there- 
from. Where no sewerage system exists, all schools must have 
a Stiles sanitary closet (plans and specifications will be furnished 
by the State Board of Health upon request,) cess-pool or septic 
tank. Where the Stiles sanitary closet is used the inner surface 
of the container must be treated with crude petroleum at least 
once a week. All closets must be scrubbed once a week and kept 
in a sanitary condition at all times. 

(Lectures for State Institutions and Teachers' Institutes.) 

The State Board of Health, will when desired by the State 
Institutions of learning, or the State Pedagogical Institutes, or 



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the Agricultural Institutes, send a lecturer to deliver a series of 
lectures on: 

1. Personal hygiene. 

2. School hygiene. 

3. Principles and practice of physical training. 

4. Drug and alcohol addictions. 

5. Contagious and infectious diseases ; cause and prevention. 

6. Hygiene of the home and farm. 

(Parish Superintendents' Monthly Report to State Board of Health.) 

The principal of each school in the State, except in cities 
where there is employed a regular medical inspector, shall make 
a monthly report to the parish superintendent of schools on the 
sanitary condition of the school building and surroundings, also 
the phj^sical condition of the school children. Blank reports for 
this purpose will bfe furnished by the Louisiana State Board of 
Health. Parish superintendents of schools shall forward, these 
reports to the Louisiana State Board of Health within ten days 
after their receipt by him. 

APPROPRL\TIONS FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION. 

(Out of the Current School Fund.) 

For support of the free public schools, or so much 
thereof, or any excess thereof, as may be collected 
State taxes levied for that purpose, from inherit- 
ance taxes, or donated to the school fund, for the 
year ending June 30, 1913, Nine Hundred Thousand 
Dollars $900000.00 

(The Public Schools Receive 1 13-20 Mills of the State Tax.) 

For the year ending June 30, 1914. Nine Hundred 

Thousand Dollars $900000.00 

For salary of Superintendent of Public Education 
for the year ending June 30, 1913, Five Thousand 
Dollars $ 5000.00 

For the year ending June 30, 1914, Five Thousand 

Dollars $ 5000.00 

Expenses of office of Superintendent of Public Educa- 
tion, for the year ending June 30, 1913, Two Thou- 
sand Dollars $ 2000.00 



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For the year ending June 30, 1914, Two Thousand 

Dollars $ 2000.00 

For salary of Secretary to Superintendent of Public 
Education, for the year ending June 30, 1913, 
One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars $ 1500.00 

For the year ending June 30, .1914, One Thousand 

Five Hundred Dollars $ 1500.00 

For salarj^ of Assistant Secretary to the Superintend- 
ent of Public Education, for the year ending June 
30, 1913, Twelve Hundred Dollars .$ 1200.00 

For the year ending June 30, 1914, Twelve Hundred 
'Dollars .$ 1200.00 

For traveling expenses of Superintendent of Public 
Education, for the year ending June 30, 1913, 
One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars $ 1500.00 

For the year ending June 30, 1914, One Thousand 

Five Hundred Dollars $ 1500.00 

For mileage and per diem of State Board of Public 
Education for the year ending June 30, 1913, 
Eight Hundred Dollars $ 800.00 

For the year ending June 30, 1914, Eight Hundred 
Dollars $ 800.00 

For holding Teachers' Institutes throughout the State, 
for the year ending June 30, 1913, Eighteen 
Thousand Dollars $ 18000.00 

For the year ending June 30, 1914, Eighteen Thou- 
sand Dollars $ 18000.00 

(Out of the Interest Tax Fund.) 

For payment of interest on the Free School Fund, Ar- 
ticle 257 of the Constitution ; for the year 1912, out 
of the revenues of 1912, Forty-five Thousand Two 
Hundred and Thirty-Four Dollars and Seventy 
Cents $ 45234.70 

For the year 1913, out of the revenues of 1913, Forty- 
Five Thousand Two Hundred and Thirty-Four Dol- 
lars and Seventy Cents $45234.70 



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For payment of interest on the Seminary Fund, Arti- 
cle 258 of the Constitution, for the year ending June 
30th, 1913, Five Thousand Four Hundred and Forty 
Dollars $ 5440.00 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, Five Thousand 

Four Hundred and Forty Dollars $ 5440.00 

For payment of interest on Fund due the Agricul- 
tural and Mechanical College, Article 259 of the 
Constitution, for the year ending June 30th, 1913, 
Nine Thousand One Hundred and Fifteen Dollars 
and Sixty-nine Cents $ 9115.69 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, Nine Thousand 
One Hundred and Fifteen Dollars and Sixty-Nine 
Cents $ 9115.63 

(Louisiana Institute for the Blind.) 

For support of the Louisiana Institute for the Blind, 
for the year ending June 30th, 1913, Thirteen Thou- 
sand Dollars $ 13000.00 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, Thirteen Thou- 
sand Dollars $ 13000.00 

For general repairs, Institute for the Blind, for the 
year ending June 30th, 1913, Seven Hundred 
Dollars $ . 700.00 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, Seven Hundred 

Dollars $ 700.00 

For insurance on buildings and contents. Institute for 
the Blind (three years' policy), out of the revenues 
of 1912, Five Hundred Dollars $ 500.00 

For library, for the year ending June 30th, 1913, Two 

Hundred and Fifty Dollars $ 250.00 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, Two Hundred 

and Fifty Dollars $ 250.00 

(Louisiana School for the Deaf.) 

For support of the Louisiana School for the Deaf, for 
the year ending June 30th, 1913, Thirty Thousand 
Dollars $ 30000.00 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, Thirty Thousand 

Dollars $ 30000.00 



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For additional equipment, school furniture, Industrial 
equipment, bedding, etc., out of the revenues of 
1913, Five Thousand Dollars $ 5000.00 

For general repairs, X/ouisiana School for the Deaf, 
for the year ending June 30th, 1913, Five Hundred 
Dollars $ 500.0Q 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, Five Hundred 

Dollars $ 500.00 

(Louisiana State University.) 

For support of the Louisiana State University and Ag- 
ricultural and Mechanical College; for equipment 
and maintenance of its libraries, laboratories and 
shops ; for insurance on buildings and contents, and 
for repairs, improvements and additions, for the 
year ending June 30th, 1913, One Hundred Thou- 
sand Dollars $100000.00 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, One Hundred 

Thousand 'Dollars $100000.00 

For the purchase price of land purchased foi>the Lou- 
isiana State University and Agricultural and Me- 
chanical College, out of the revenues of 1912, Fif- 
teen Thousand Dollars $ 15000.00 

Out of the revenues of 1913, Fifteen Thousand Dol- 
lars $ 15000.00 

(State Normal School.) 

For support, maintenance, additions to buildings, 
equipment, repairs, insurance, etc., for the year end- 
ing June 30th, 1913, Seventy-Two Thousand Five 
Hundred Dollars $ 72500.00 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, Seventy-Two 

Thousand Five Hundred Dollars $ 72500.00 

For heating, lighting, plumbing, water and sewerage 
for Model School, out of the revenues of the year 

1913, Five Thousand Dollars $ 5000.00 

For Power House and additional unit for heat and 

light, out of the revenues of 1913, Three Thousand 

Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars $ 3750.00 

For furniture for Model School, out of the revenues of 

1914, Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars $ 2500.00 



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(Louisiana Industrial Institute.) 

For support, maintenance, erection of new buildings 
equipment, repairs, insurance, etc., for the year end- 
ing June 30th, 1913, Sixty-Five Thousand Dollars. $ 65000.00 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, Sixty-Five Thou- 
sand Dollars $ 65,000.00 

(Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute.) 

For support, maintenance, equipment, repairs, insur- 
ance, Summer School, etc., for the year ending June 
30th, 1913, Thirty-Five Thousand Dollars $ 35,000.00 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, Thirty-Five 

Thousand Dollars • $ 35000.00 

For laundry, repairs, equipment and insurance, for 
the year ending June 30th, 1913, Five Thousand 
Dollars $ 5000.00 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, Five Thousand 

Dollars .". .$ 5000.00 

(Stat© Reform School.) 

For support, maintenance, improvements, and other 
expenses of State Reform School, for the year end- 
ing June 30th, 1913, Twelve Thousand Five Hun- 
dred Dollars: $ 12500.00 

For the year ending June 30th, 1914, Twelve Thou- 
sand Five Hundred Dollars $ 12500.00 

For residence of Superintendent, State Reform School, 

out of the revenues of 1912, Four Thousand Dollars . $ 4000.00 

For screening and other improvements on main build- 
ing, out of the revenues of 1912, Five Hundred Dol- 
lars $ 500.00 

For payment of Land Purchased, out of the revenues 
of 1912, Four Thousand Six Hundred and Forty- 
Six Dollars $ 4646.00 



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